Now that you know a lot more about passive, diversified real estate investment and how it could fit in your overall financial plan, let’s review how to get started.
Pre-Planning Activities
As they say in woodworking: measure twice, cut once. It is important to plan before you act.
Activities within the family.
- Decide if real estate investment is right for your portfolio.
- See Chapter 1 of this book.
- Decide if you want to invest passively or actively.
- See Appendix 3 of this book.
Activities with your advisors.
Talk to your advisory team – most importantly your CPA, but also your attorney and financial advisor if you have them.
- CPA:
- Tax considerations.
- For example, if you have the option to get more passive losses through depreciation, how much would you want?
- CPA or financial advisor.
- For example, which investments should be purchased with cash, versus through your self-directed IRA?
- Does it matter if you personally own the investment, or is there a tax benefit to another method?
- Attorney:
- How to hold title (for example, in concert with the rest of your estate plan).
- Detailed review of specific fund documents when you are about to invest.
Activities with potential Fund General Partners and/or Sponsors.
See how their fund(s) fit your requirements with the 8 Factors of Due Diligence before investing.
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