I would suggest joining your local investment club to stay current with what's working in your area and to make more connections.Also consider investing in an IRA and make all your purchases from that because you'll have tons of tax free benefits....Also through your investment club find out where to invest some cash on those who rehab and make sure you're in first position.Lastly continue what you're currently doing but really once you do the IRA thing you will be able to drop 1/2 strategies if it gets to be too much and you're rolling in the dough..gl

John,I just completed a purchase of rental property through a self directed IRA with funds from a SEP/IRA which I had previously invested in equities.

Together we have Roth IRAs we could pull $12,200 out of without taxes or penalties.

What could you earn inside your 401k or IRA.

I haven't seen any magic in that area - experienced investors might be able to swing rehab bucks into the deal with private lenders or hard money, but new people are going to have to find the money the hard way - additional savings, loans from friends & family, credit card advances, loans from iras or 401's, collecting beer cans, white-collar crime, whatever you can think of to generate the bucks.

I guess one could say I've seen the full gambit of various loan products through the following path – loan origination (borrower), loan sold to institutional investor, product being securitized / packaged and then sold back to the street.I'm very interested in note investing, and acquisition of positive cash flow rental properties via self directed IRA and personal and/or business funds.

What is your opinion on using this strategy to increase the value of my Roth IRA?

If you have not researched Self-Directed IRAs (SDIRA's) that can hold real property as part of your retirement, you may want to move that route.

I am doing that because it is a private lender and the rate is higher than market, but the money had no points, no fees, no costs whatsoever.I also sold two other properties, and used some of that to pay off high interest mortgages, max out my IRA and dabble a little in the stock market.

For the IRA LLC it's a special purpose LLC that's created to be designed by the IRA.