Yes. Investing in self-storage in a structure like ours is perfect for retirement plan investing because your involvement is by definition passive. All you need to do, if you haven’t already, is set up a SELF-DIRECTED IRA with an independent custodian, like Directed IRA, Specialized IRA Services, or Vantage IRA. Once that is done you can invest using your IRA/401K/ROTH-IRA… or other similar self-directed retirement account forms.

All our investment and Private Placement Memorandums are based on individual properties, and every property is different and will therefore offer different returns.

Our returns typically consist of two parts:

Preferred Return from Cash Flow: Each investment is selected such that it pays an minimum average annual preferred return of at least 6% (depending on the individual property deal this could be higher than that) which is paid out quarterly via direct deposit into your bank account or by check. In other words, the investors get paid first before the sponsors get paid anything. This protects you as an investor and makes sure we only pick projects that have strong cash flow outlooks.

Profit Share/Back End Profit: Upon a Sale or Refinancing of the property it is our goal to return 100% of the initial invested amount to each investor, and then do a profit split between sponsors and investors.

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When you invest in a REIT, you are buying shares in a company, just like when you buy shares in a stock. You do not own the underlying real estate, you own shares in the company that owns those assets.
When you invest in a real estate syndication, you are investing directly in a specific property. Together with the other limited partner investors and general partners, you will own the entity (usually an LLC) that holds the asset. Thus, you have direct ownership.

When you invest in an apartment REIT, that REIT will likely own and manage a lot of apartment buildings in multiple markets across the country. With a real estate syndication, you are investing in a single property in a single market.

With a REIT, you can invest a very small amount of money, just like a stock. Syndications typically have higher minimum investments, often $50,000 or higher.

When you invest directly in a property through a real estate syndication, you get the benefit of a variety of tax deductions, including depreciation. In some case those tax benefits can be quite substantial. The depreciation benefits often surpass the cash flow, so you’re showing a loss on paper while you’re actually getting positive cash flow. Further, you can use those paper losses to offset your other income, like income from your job.

When you invest in a REIT, because you’re investing in the company and not directly in the real estate, you do get the benefits of depreciation, but those are factored in before you get your dividends, so you don’t get any tax breaks on top of that, and you can’t use that depreciation to offset any of your other income. Further, any dividends are taxed as ordinary income, which can contribute to a bigger, rather than smaller, tax bill.

It varies from property to property, but in general as a LP (Limited Partner) you should expect to receive a cash distribution on a quarterly basis, and then also upon an exit event. The first quarterly cash distribution is typically a short time after the end of the quarter in which the property closes.