Real estate investing is simple. Buy low, sell high, and collect enough rent to cover your costs and you're winning. But now prices are plummeting the real estate investment opportunities have gone right? Wrong.

There are powerful reasons to own your own IRA. And a self-directed IRA is by far the best IRA to have, because your custodian allows you to invest in a much less restricted range of assets. And you simply must be allowed to invest your IRA in real estate.

Real estate has to be about the worst investment in 2008 doesn't it? Is there any way you can find good real estate investments in todays tough real estate world?

It's quite legal and very doable to invest your IRA in real estate - yourself. But surely you wouldn't do that in 2008 with the markets in meltdown - would you?

Did you realize that you can direct your own IRA investments, and that if you do so you should do significantly better than just leaving it up to your custodian. But to do so you should understand IRA rollovers

The real estate investment market is dead right now right? Well no, it depends on your investment strategy. Surprisingly there are some very good real estate investments around right now.