Here is a thing that happens more often than it should.
Someone needs money from their gold IRA. They call the company that sold them the gold, because that is the number they have.
The company is helpful. Very helpful. They handle everything.
And that is the problem, because the company that sold you the gold is now the company buying it back, and nobody in that conversation is working for you.
Selling gold from an IRA is not complicated. It is six steps and it takes about a week.
But one of those steps decides how much money you end up with, and most people skip it entirely.
Let us walk the whole thing, in order, with the important part marked.