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Originally Posted by CowboyDave
The point is it serves you no purpose to tie that money up because you will likely pay the same tax rate on it now or in the future. So use it now (hopefully wisely) and gain the benefit of it instead of tying it up for no benefit.
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My investment adviser has turned me on to probably the most ingenious financial strategy I have heard of. It goes like this:
1) Invest traditional IRA money in a new construction deal, say, apartment complex, in year 1. Say it's $50,000.
2) At the end of year 1, your IRA custodian gets a letter from an appraiser who says, "There's nothing here but some pipes sticking oit of the ground. This investment (your proportional share) isn;t worth $50,000; it's only worth $25,000."
3. Your custodian dutifully reports to you on your statements that your investment, with a basis of $50,000, is now worth only $25,000.
4. At that point, you do a Roth conversion, paying taxes on the $25,000.
5. When the investment goes full cycle, all the growth between $25,000 and the disposition amount is tax-free. You've saved taxes on $25,000 of traditional IRA money.