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The beauty of real estate investing is that it can make you money both in the short and the long term.  If you are looking to supplement your current income, fixing and flipping properties is an ideal strategy to do so. For those with longer investment horizons, rehabbing and holding the properties as rentals offers an opportunity to build substantial equity over the years.  However, there is another often-overlooked strategy that delivers incredible results.  It’s investing in real estate via non-recourse IRA loans.

If you have an IRA retirement plan and interested in real estate investing, you owe to yourself to learn more about non-recourse loans and self-directed IRAs.

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Your first flip is a cornerstone of your investment career. It may launch a profitable side business that will steadily increase your net worth. Alternatively, it may sour you on real estate for years to come. Being a first-time real estate investor doesn’t necessarily put you at a disadvantage. However, since you are facing a slew of unknowns, this is not the time to be overly confident. Swaggering attitude is a sure sign of a first-time investor immaturity and a red flag for private money lenders like us.

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Hard money loans offer unparalleled leverage, speed, and flexibility—something that conventional lenders cannot even come close to. To compensate for the risk, private lenders charge more for their money, making their loans more expensive than those offered by traditional lenders. If you are one of the traditional lenders, the only advantage of your product is the price you charge.

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After analyzing a variety of Google search engine results pages, we found that one of the most popular search phrases involving hard money is “hard money vs. soft money.” I live and breathe hard money, but—I am the first to admit—it creates certain myopia when it comes to an understanding what people outside of our industry know about it. Ours is a highly specialized product, but many people, even those who are financially sophisticated, have little understanding of it. A couple of days ago I ran into my former boss, with whom I worked 20 years ago. He is a great, successful man who ran a multi-million insurance and financial services company for MetLife and retired as a multi-millionaire. We started catching up and discovered he has no idea what hard money is—and he is a former financial guru!

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