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The Conservative Pre-Retiree’s Guide to Trust Deed Investments Print E-mail
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As a pre-retiree, your life is filled with confusing choices to make. You know that as you age you should begin moving your money from riskier investments into the more conservative because the older you get, the less time you have to recover from the potential losses and failures of risky investments. But you also know that conservative investments carry their own set of risks, including the risk that you won’t accumulate enough growth from a low-interest, conservative investment to actually sustain your lifestyle needs through retirement.

Introducing Trust Deed Investments

One way around the accumulation risk posed by conservative investments is to consider Trust Deed Investments (also known as hard money loans) as part of a well diversified retirement plan. Trust deed investments are a decades’ old investment option that allow investors a low volatility, fixed investment vehicle with the flexibility that a conservative pre-retiree craves.

In a trust deed investment, you lend a real estate investor who wants to buy either commercial or residential real estate, up to 50 percent of the proceeds they need to invest in a property. But you don’t just do that sight unseen. You loan the money only after a Trust Deed Investment Company has vetted the borrower and the borrower has presented an exit strategy for paying off the loan.

Ideal for a Conservative Investor

Trust deed investments are ideal for conservative investors for several reasons. The first is the intensive vetting process that each loan must go through. The second is the transparency of the deal, because unlike a REIT, equity, or mutual fund, a trust deed investment gives the lender access to all the details of the transaction—from the property assessments to the borrower’s credit profile to his or her exit strategy. The investment is simple and all the paperwork and transactional duties are handled by a Trust Deed Investment Company.

Trust deed investments are also short term investments with relatively high interest rates. Loans are generally paid off within five years and the fixed interest rate is usually between 7 and 12 percent. Also, because you are only lending up to 50 percent of the property value, there is a cushion of equity there to protect your investment*. The loans can also be sold to another investor, making them as liquid as bond.

When you are looking for an appropriate fixed investment for your retirement account that doesn’t require a lot of maintenance for the investor, does not sacrifice return for risk (or vice versa) and has a comfortable fixed interest rate, think about a trust deed investment.

*Protective equity is based on a formula and may not equal 50% of the property’s value.

 
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