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The IRS Auditor said My DIY IRA LLC Did Not Make the Grade

By: Daniel Cordoba, CEA In today's world of flip that house, change your curb appeal, sell it yourself why not be your own self-directed IRA attorney and do it all yourself? After all, it can't be that hard to create an IRA LLC! Don't worry about how you look in an orange jump suit or if just a social security check is good enough. Let's look at the evidence her are two good reasons why you might consider using a Self-directed IRA advisor.

1) The operating agreements and instructions are incomplete, misinterpreted which could position the investor for an audit.

2) DIY means no support.

3) Most of the custodians listed as acceptable recipients will not accept the submitted format.

This maybe true in the Hollywood studio setting but is it wise to place your retirement in the hands of a website without an identity or support? The author of the oldest DIY version of the IRA LLC out there has used a Wyoming LLC to hide their identity, and a fulfillment center to deliver the documents. You might say to yourself why is that a problem? Let's say you were about to move from Texas to Nevada and you wanted a DIY version to execute after the move. The system would send you the version for Texas because of the purchase information on the order and there is no option for selecting a state. I know I tried it.

Now you are in possession of the documents for the wrong state. What if you needed to make a procedural change or wanted to name a contingency manager to the LLC, where do you go for support? No one, there is no way to reach them. How about your local attorney? Doubt it, they would have to learn much of what you were trying to avoid increasing your costs. No you have defeated your intended purpose of saving money by doing it yourself. Maybe professional help is looking cheaper?

Ongoing support? If the producer is unwilling to disclose a contact how do you keep up with changes in the tax code?

I read a blog entry the other day in one of the large investor blogs about an investor who did not want to pay our price nor that of our competitor. So he did some research and explained to his investment club what he had discovered and some of the information was right and some was wrong. He received slaps on the back for unearthing information and saving himself a few dollars. It seems to me that he could have much better spent that time finding an asset to invest in, something he was proficient at rather than sharing half correct information that may eventually come back to bite him and his friends who decided he was the next investment procedural sage.

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