Should you take your retirement account OFFSHORE… outside of the reach of Uncle Sam, and within grasp of a world of investment opportunities that don’t exist for most Americans?  I’m Bryan Ellis… I’ll give you a tantalizing peak into the world of offshore investing RIGHT NOW in Episode #91.

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Offshore investing… it conjures images of exotic locales, freedom from taxes and an end to the worry that Uncle Sam will go all Cyprus on your money and steal everything you’ve worked so hard to build.  And coupling offshore investment strategies with your retirement account… well, that seems to be the ultimate for a self-reliant, privacy-loving group like we Self Directed Investors.

But is that the truth?  Well… I’ll tell you the honest truth about it right after this:

Write this down, my friends:  S3Flip.com.  S3Flip.com.  You’ve heard me espousing the S3 Standard – SIMPLE, SAFE and STRONG – repeatedly on this show.  You’ll hear that over and over from me because it’s CORE.  It’s fundamental.  You and I, as responsible self-directed investors, have one core value:  To respect our own capital.  And we do that by employing the S3 Standard when we evaluate investment opportunities.  It’s no more complicated than that.

But what about real estate flipping?  You’ve also heard me talking about that.  You’ve heard me sing the praises of my team, who facilitate fully outsourced property flips for our clientele of affluent investors who recognize the opportunity in flipping and are financially able to get involved, but who may not have the time or the expertise to handle it for themselves.

But flipping is a really, really dangerous thing to do, isn’t it?  Can’t you lose a LOT of money by trying to make money that way?

Well, the answer is an absolute YES… YOU can lose a lot of money by trying to be a flipper.  I mean… specifically… YOU could lose a lot of money by trying it because, well… you, my friend, are not a professional flipper.  Let me tell you something:  I personally have a vast, vast background in real estate investing.  But I’m not a flipper.  So for YOU… and for me, flipping is a dangerous thing.

But my friends… what if you could join forces with someone who has done HUNDREDS of these deals?  Someone who does NOTHING BUT real estate flipping.  Someone who has an ASTOUNDING track record, available for you to review and confirm for yourself?  Someone who has a large clientele of affluent investors who come back to him over and over and over again?

What if it could be YOUR money… working totally passively… and THEIR expertise and resources… and at the end of the day, BOTH of you benefit in the same way:  From PROFITABLE transactions!  What if these deals were rather short – almost all completed in 4 months or so – so that you could generate a strong return on your capital on each deal… and then do 2 or 3 deals every year?

So, my friends, here’s the opportunity:  I have a team of EXTRAORDINARY real estate flippers that work with me and with some of my clients.  They are top-notch, and I’ve given you examples of their work in past episodes.  I’ll give you another case study tomorrow, too.  And RIGHT NOW… which is an unusual circumstances… I can take on a few more clients who recognize the opportunity that exists in today’s real estate market for short-term flipping.

And what is that opportunity?  According to the huge real estate research firm RealtyTrac… the AVERAGE real estate flip in the first quarter of this year resulted in a gross profit of over $72,000 and gross ROI of over 35%.  That’s the AVERAGE gross profit, not an exceptional one.  And that’s across more than 17,000 flips that completed in the first quarter.  Yep… 17,000 in the first quarter alone.  Do the math on that… and what you’ll see is that in Q1 of this year, there was well over $1.2 BILLION in gross flipping profits.

And guess what… our averages may be even better than what RealtyTrac has reported for the nation as a whole.

So… maybe you’re already convinced of the opportunity.  Maybe you just suspect an opportunity but aren’t yet convinced of it.  But whatever your situation, if the prospect of making substantial cash-on-cash returns from real estate WITHOUT being tied up in it yourself gets your attention… if you’ve been looking for a way to diversify AWAY from Wall Street – you do know the S&P 500 is basically FLAT for the year, right? – and if your financial profile fits this opportunity which, at a basic level, means you have a minimum of $75,000 of liquid capital, then do this:

Go to the website S3Flip.com.  Go there soon because as I mentioned, we don’t have the ability to take on an unlimited number of clients, but I’ve got some space right now.  On that page is a webinar you can watch where I’ll tell you all about our process… I’ll show you MANY examples of our deals… including the ONE losing transaction we’ve ever had for a client… and I’ll show you why this strategy… Fully Outsourced Real Estate Flips… along with MY FLIPPING TEAM… you’ll see why it’s such a BEAUTIFUL opportunity for those of you who want a SIMPLE and SAFE way to generate an incredibly STRONG return in a totally passive manner.

So, again, that’s S3Flip.com.  Respectfully, please do be aware that that opportunity won’t be available for long.

So… you want to mix your retirement account with offshore investing?

Honestly, it’s going to take us a couple of episodes to even scratch the surface of this issue.  So let’s get started with it.

Where to start?

Well, let’s start with the most basic level:  What is offshore investing?

It means a lot of different things to different people, but let’s describe it like this:  Offshore investing is when you invest in assets that are located in countries other than the US rather than in America-based assets.  So, arguably, buying stocks from foreign stock exchanges is offshore investing.  As is buying into foreign hedge funds, or creating foreign LLCs or corporations – rather than the American equivalent – for use in your retirement account.

But can you do offshore investing through your retirement account?

Well, maybe.  It depends a lot on the type of account you have.

At a basic level, you MUST have a fully self-directed account.  I don’t mean a “self directed” account like they offer at eTrade or Schwab, where you get to self-direct so long as you buy products from those brokerages.  I mean a TRUE self-directed account that allows you to buy absolutely anything that is allowed by the IRS.

If you don’t know for sure, call your custodian and ask this question:  “Can I buy shares of a private, unlisted company?”  If the answer is YES, then there’s a good chance you’ve got a fully self-directed account.

But that’s not the end of the story.

That’s because it appears… anecdotally… that a whole lot of self-directed account providers put restrictions in their account documents which require that all of the indicia of ownership of the account’s assets must be in the United States.  That’s a fancy way of saying that your investments must be based here in the good ole US of A.

That is, of course, how Uncle Sam would prefer it.  That way, they have access to your assets if they ever want to take them away.  And if you think they can’t take them away… if you believe the nonsense that suggests your retirement savings are secure just because there’s some statutory protection for them under the law… well… I’ve got a bridge to sell to you.  And… you should probably check out past episodes of this show, in which I show you a LOT of ways the government can callously rip away your hard-earned retirement savings with very, very little effort on their part.

But I digress.

You’ve heard me say over and over again that there really is a DIFFERENCE from one self-directed retirement account to the next?  And most of the differences you’ll never even know… until you realize you can’t do something you wanted to do with your own retirement savings.

Offshore investing is one of those things.  So, I’ll dig into this topic of offshore investing more on tomorrow’s show.  But for now, the first thing you’ve got to determine is this:  Does my Self-Directed Retirement Account even allow me to buy international assets?  Because… the hard truth is… many of them don’t.

Tomorrow, we’ll get into the deeper things of offshore investing that many of you are pining for.  So, be sure to SUBSCRIBE to Self-Directed Investor Radio RIGHT NOW…  it’s really important that you do so.  Go over to iTunes or Stitcher and subscribe – at no cost – so you’ll automatically get our new daily episodes.

And remember what I told you earlier about the opportunity to do very well financial from fully outsourced real estate flipping.  While that opportunity remains available, you can learn about it at S3Flip.com.

My friends… invest wisely today… and live well forever!

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