Archive for ‘real estate’
Buying Property in Australia
by Colleen Murphy Ah, Australia: sun and fun, desert expanse, crocs and spiders, exquisite wines, and… unprecedented new wealth created by booms in housing and commodities. Australia attracts a great deal of foreign investment across the sectors, most notably (and not surprisingly) in mineral resources and real estate. It also closely manages its levels of [...]
Breakthrough Case Gives You Control of Your IRA
by Jeff Schneider, CPA You’ve likely found yourself in a situation with a teenager, spouse, or friend beats around the bush. They’ll tell you everything you want to know except for directly addressing the question. It happens everywhere and is maybe more prevalent in the oration of political nothings. If you haven’t seen this already, [...]
Breaking the Chains of Financial Slavery
by Mark Ford We recently received an email from Jorge Izquierdo Jr., a subscriber, who complained that “all the material being covered [in The Palm Beach Letter] is for long-term investing. What about short term? I’ve been trying to free my family and myself from the chains of slavery for far too long now. Show [...]
Three Numbers that are Essential to Your Wealth
by Mark Ford In marriage, there are three numbers you must know by heart: your spouse’s birthday (October 18), your anniversary (April 19), and how many minutes you can be late before you are in trouble (twelve). To run a business, there are also three vital numbers you must know: net cash flow, the cost [...]
Passive Real Estate Investments…For Real!
By Bobby Casey Since 2007 the resounding question has remained, “Where to invest in something safe?” Traditionally, most people have the response, “real estate is safe”, and the automatic counter from the other side is, “Most real estate is not passive”. When people wanted to remain passive and invest in real estate they went for [...]
More IRA Restrictions Coming…
by Jeff Schneider, PassportIRA Regulators never seek an end to their dominion. While imperialists grow their physical borders, regulators are tasked to interpret broad based Congressional laws. As the number of government agencies boom, they now battle to control an ever expanding book of law. Retirement accounts have become the second largest non-home asset in [...]
Protect your Real Estate Assets Like the Uber-Rich
By Bobby Casey, Global Wealth Protection LLC In my consulting business, I frequently work with real estate investors who are interested in creating a bulletproof asset protection plan to shield themselves from predatory litigation. From my viewpoint, real estate investors have one of the highest risk profiles of any business person. Clearly the world is [...]
Avoid the Retirement Dilemma
by Gregg Wood, Silver Stream Advisors Using Your IRA or 401k to Invest in Real Estate Assets Imagine working 90 hours per week for 30 years as a waitress and only saving $110,000 in your retirement plan; only to have a greedy, self-interested financial advisor put your funds in the market in 1998. Three years [...]
A Simple Analogy for a Mega-Trend in your Retirement
by Jeff Schneider, PassportIRA Protect your Retirement Assets from Nationalization 70 million US taxpayers are set to retire in the next 19 years. That’s over 10,000 retirement parties every single day. This, along with the ongoing economic turmoil, leads to many dynamic changes to businesses and individual’s daily lives. There is no doubt the baby [...]
Moving Money Offshore
By Jay Butler, Asset Protection Services Ltd. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) considers all income reportable regardless of the source or location derived and most assets held offshore are reportable, however some are not. When looking to preserve your assets it is important to understand the difference between taxable income and reportable assets. Here are [...]
Line in the Sand for Real Estate
By Jeff Schneider CPA, PassportIRA Real estate is a great option to be owned in an IRA. Especially if owned in foreign countries, the omnipresent hand of the U.S. government is not able to swipe foreign real estate away from you like they could basic equities. Although the transactions can be relatively straightforward, the implications [...]
How to Maintain Asset Privacy Within the US
By Bobby Casey, Global Wealth Protection With asset protection planning, anonymity seems to be the number one concern for people these days. And rightly so. Any 11 year old with a laptop can easily do an online record search and find your bank accounts and their balances, your vehicle registrations, your real estate assets, your [...]
