In America there are 45,000,000 Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs). Collectively they amount to Four Trillion Dollars and Wall Street has controlled an astounding 97% of these investment dollars for decades.

Less than a scant 3% of those Four Trillion Dollars is invested in real estate. Apparently Realtors® can’t escape the black hole created by slick Wall Street advertising and they too are more likely to own Mutual Funds with their IRA than real estate. How can this be in view of the fact that the #1 investment for Self-Directed IRAs in 2007 was real estate? What are Realtors® thinking, or perhaps better said, what aren’t Realtors thinking?

Each month 200 million dollars, 2.4 billion annually, flee the clutches of Wall Street IRAs to take refuge with the growing number of Self-Directed IRA Custodians. Why, because people want to take control of their retirement future and because they are hungry to invest their IRAs in real estate, both domestic and foreign, and real estate related products; Tax Lien Certificates, Notes and much, much more.

Yes, your IRA can own a US Post Office building and land and rent it to Uncle Sam, or, if you are a bit more aggressive your IRA can conduct “Short Sales” and “Foreclosures”.

Your IRA can even own a vineyard in Argentina, a B&B in Tuscany or a Bait & Tackle Shop in Belize. The opportunities are endless but unfortunately neither your Financial Planner nor your Realtor® is telling you about these marvelous opportunities.

With 1,000,000 Realtor® members strong what has the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) done about this incredible disparity, unfortunately very little as evidenced by the fact that most Realtors® are clueless when it comes to rendering advice on the IRA and how it can own real estate, the very product Realtors® sell for a living.

In this book Thomas Phelan pulls back the drapes and reveals the secrets how Wall Street for thirty years has maintained a stranglehold on your retirement dollars and controlled your retirement future with its highly skilled army of agents, Stock Brokers and Financial Planners, who continue to successfully maintain their number one objective, to keep your retirement dollars lining their pockets with commissions.

In order to take true control over your retirement future you must unlock your IRA and use those dollars to expand and accelerate growth. The reward, you can shave years off your retirement age and add hundreds, or thousands of dollars to your retirement income.

RICH IRA POOR IRA is a must read if you want to take back control of your retirement future.