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Foreclosures, tax liens risky as investment alternatives
Worried about stocks, some investors are putting their retirement money into something they're convinced will be plentiful in 2008: foreclosures and tax liens.
Using self-directed individual retirement accounts, investors are buying depressed real estate, making loans to private companies and buying up tax lien certificates on properties, which give the investors a government-determined yield that the homeowner pays to release the lien. If the homeowner doesn't do that within a prescribed time period, the investor receives the property.
A handful of firms specialize in helping clients make alternative investments in their IRAs, but industry players say it's still a tiny fraction of the overall IRA market.
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Shot at stardom
Just a few years ago, Rodney Johnson was immersed in a tween world and ready to break out.
After his young adult book series about a part-Lakota teenage girl solving mysteries was published, Johnson was quickly scooped up by Disney Channel's online division, working for shows like "Lizzie McGuire.""When I read that Hilary Duff [star of 'Lizzie'] was making $2 million for 'A Cinderella Story,' I thought I could totally go off and be successful on my own," Johnson said.It didn't work out quite as he planned."You kind of go nowhere really," Johnson said. "In my experience, you write a great script and without representation, companies aren't going to read it."So in 2005, Johnson decided to try a different route. He submitted a script called "The Understudies" to screenwriting contest Scriptapalooza, which he found during an Internet search.He was among the top 20 in submissions, and soon his work was read by Creative Convergence management company, which signed Johnson.
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