Maximizing Your Retirement Savings

How can you squirrel-away the most retirement savings?  If you’re self-employed you can do this easily with a SEP Plan.  First available in 1979, the…

Read more

How uDirect IRA Services Makes Your Investing Experience...

When it comes to Self-Directing your retirement funds you want great service and reasonable fees.  We have many people switch their IRA accounts from other…

Read more

Three Things to Understand About Your IRA

If you’re like many people, you’ve worked hard to accumulate a large nest egg in your traditional IRA (including a SEP-IRA). It’s even more critical…

Read more

How to Profit From The Next Recession

by Guest Contributor, Professional Investor David Campbell, founder of Hassle-Free Cashflow Investing As a professional investor with over a billion dollars of transactional experience, I…

Read more

Four Steps to Saving for Retirement

Not saving for retirement?  A 2018 Government Accountability Office study found that nearly one-third of Americans age 55 and older don’t have any retirement nest egg even a…

Read more

Required Minimum Distributions

When you have a pre-tax retirement account (like a Traditional IRA, SEP IRA or 401(k)) the time will come when you will need to begin…

Read more

SDIRA ~ Accredited vs. Non-Accredited Investor

When investing in a private placement, also know as a PPM, Crowdfunding, Syndication, etc. you will be asked for your “accredited investor” status. Here, we’ll…

Read more

Navigating The IRA-Owned LLC

One popular option that a uDirect IRA Services account-holder can utilize is the IRA owned LLC, often referred to a “Checkbook IRA.” It’s one of…

Read more

Exceptions to Withdrawal Penalties

Exceptions to Withdrawal Penalties in a Traditional IRA Sometimes we have to break into the piggy bank also known as our IRA.  When you have…

Read more

Passive Real Estate Investing

So you want to be a passive real estate investor?  Congratulations!   90% of the world’s millionaires do this to create wealth. Problem is you have…

Read more

Roth IRA Contributions and Conversions

  A Roth IRA is a retirement account that accepts after-tax funds. That means you pay taxes on the contributions. The profits then grow tax-exempt.…

Read more

How To Invest in Notes in Your IRA

Promissory Notes, both secured and unsecured, have become very popular with account holders as an investment option for their IRA.  Investing in Promissory Notes can…

Read more

What Is a 1099 & 5498?

Did you get a 1099 or 5498 form in the mail? Here is a brief explanation of what 1099 and 5498 tax forms are. The…

Read more

How can an Entrepreneur Benefit from a Self-Directed...

Being an entrepreneur has its challenges and it also has its rewards.  It was in September that Richard first came up with the idea for…

Read more

Good News for Retirement Savers in 2019

2019 Means More Savings in Retirement Accounts Recently the Treasury Department announced inflation-adjusted figures for retirement account savings for 2019, and its good news for…

Read more
jeff dixon

Be Self-Reliant by Self-Directing

Retirement is a reality that most all Americans will face as few people work until they die.  However only around 30% of people believe they…

Read more
self directed ira

How To Determine If You Are an Accredited...

How do you become accredited? Today’s crowdfunding platforms offer many new opportunities that investors may not have discovered in the past. However only accredited investors…

Read more
John Hyre udirect ira services llc

“Checkbook LLC” arrangement blows up. Real estate entrepreneur...

 Quick Synopsis An engineer from Phoenix made a living doing “Phase I” and similar types of environmental impact reports for purchasers of commercial properties.  When…

Read more

Transferring Nonmonetary Assets

  Requirements for Transferring Real Estate and Nonmonetary Assets from Another Custodian   In order to affect a transfer of Real Estate/ Nonmonetary Assets from…

Read more

Financial Tactics on Amazon Prime

  A few months ago,uDirect IRA Services participated on a panel of experts.  It’s the 7th Annual Financial Tactics Brunch and it’s a live educational…

Read more