You can buy real estate and participate in investment vehicles such as those offered by Quantum Acquisitions through your IRA (or other retirement plans).

We recommend that you consult with your IRA or Retirement Account custodian to ensure that their particular plan can accommodate this kind of transaction. If your current custodian does not allow you to make these types of investments and you decide it is in your interest to do so, you may wish to change your IRA custodian. You may do so at any time on a tax-free basis by doing a “trustee-to-trustee” transfer of some or all of the account.

There are several experienced companies that specialize in serving as custodians for “self-directed” IRAs. One of the largest of these, PENSCO, is headquartered right here in San Francisco.