Traditionally, an IRA was created to save for retirement. You can also invest through your IRA and multiply your retirement savings tremendously. At the same time, there are huge tax benefits that saves you lots of money in real estate investing.
We explore how you can build your real estate empire by investing through your roth IRA and taking advantage of the tax break.
Traditionally , the custodian of the IRA is the one that makes investing decisions. In a traditional IRA, custodians can charge huge fees for their expertise. You therefore need a self directed IRA. You make the investing decisions in a roth IRA. In addition, a roth IRA is cheaper because you make the decisions. You can make your real estate investments through your roth IRA.
The main advantages of a roth IRA are
1) Roth IRA contributions are not tax deductible
2) Withdrawals are tax free
3) Your transactions within the roth IRA are not taxable
Since you don't get taxed on the profits your IRA makes, you save lots of money in your real estate investing deals. What this means is that if you look for real estate investing transactions that need little capital, you can easily invest using your roth IRA with no taxes on your capital gains. You end up accumulating lots of cash in your retirements account. You can continue to use this cash in your real estate investing business while having a tax break that saves you lots of money.
It is important that you get familiar with the type of transactions you can do using your roth IRA and the ones you cannot. You should learn the regulations of IRA investing especially as they relate to real estate investing.
This will make you lots of money by saving on the tax benefits of using a roth IRA in real estate investing.
So how does it work?
There are many types of real estate investing, so it is impossible to give a complete over-view of how it works. Suppose you are buying a house to flip it as a wholesale deal. Your roth IRA will be listed as the buyer in the contract. The earnest money will come from your IRA account. If you assign the contract to another real estate investor, the assignment fee will go to your IRA account on closing. In this type of transaction, you can invest $10 to $100 and make $5000 in assignment fee - money that goes to your roth IRA account tax free.
Similarly if you do lease to own transactions, you can invest little money from your IRA to acquire the deal. If you form a land trust to manage this deal, your IRA becomes the beneficiary. This way, your IRA gets all the monthly positive cash flow. When you eventually cash out the transaction, the money goes into your IRA.
You can then continue using this money for similar real estate investments and grow you retirement savings.
Again, this is only one example, and you should get more advice and IRA regulations and the type of transactions you can and cannot do.
Using this type of real estate investing model, you can build a huge tax free retirement savings. This will build your real estate investing business to new heights.
