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Thanks for your Response Desi. I realize I forgot to mention a critical point: the property is not their primary home, so unfortunately they would not qualify for the exclusions. Assuming cap gains is due, do you have any further ideas in the scenario I described?

Thanks again for your response.

[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]I'm negotiating a seller financing deal for purchasing a property. The sellers are an older couple. They have requested me to outline for them examples of the benefits of deferring Capital Gains. For example, if we negotiate a Seller Financed 30 year amortized loan, they would ...

Regarding Self-directed IRA: Wow, you remember that thread? That was quite a while ago. :)

Thanks everyone for contributing. I hadn't considered possibility of gifting the money to a minor, but as Desi points out, this won't work very well for my situation. Basically, I had come to the similar conclusion that gwldaddu mentioned which is to put it in two savings bank accounts at a local ...

Hi all, I thought it wouldn't hurt to ask to see if anyone could suggest ideas I hadn't considered.

I'm waiting for a property deal to come through that will likely take 2-3 months. While I wait, does anyone have suggestions on where I could park about $500k cash?

Thanks.

[quote=Bobus;94057]It appears that RBI closed the above route in 2003. At my leisure, I will try to explore another route - the FII route.[/quote]

Bobus, how did you research this? Does RBI publish their rules somewhere?

[quote=bmukherji;94007][B]A Comment[/B] To avoid self-dealing and pitfalls associated with a pvt. ltd. co. in India, an altenative could be to make a duo-play. Find and team with a like-minded individual and setup cross ownership of each other's RE investments via self directed IRAs.[/quote] That ...

Nice work! It would be wonderful to have that option!

me2_r2i: I really appreciate the points you've brought up thus far. Thank you!

Also, it would be great if you can share some of the gotchas/weak-links you discovered during your research. I'm sure those would be immensely useful to me and others on the forum. Thanks!

Regarding #31: [quote=me2_r2i;93741]I thought you propose to continuously swap the RE and never liquidate... I guess this part is very important, but is very very shady for me on how one would actually do without becoming a director! [/quote] Yes, ideally any liquidation should be limited to the ...