For a long term rental, you are probably safe signing a lease, collecting rents, calling out a handyman as needed, and paying the bills for things like property taxes, insurance, etc - all through the vehicle of the IRA-owned LLC, of course.Short terms rentals are a problematic concept for a SDIRA.  

We are low keyed folks, drive older vintage vehicles (which I love), and do what we love at this stage of our lives.  

It's not taxed by taking it as a loan, and it's a much better vehicle for me to use it as an investment into my RE ventures at this time. 

There was 1 in all of Munich when I went there and I had to do a lot of walking to get to it because it's so hard to own a vehicle there.

As should be the trailer to transport it to those properties and even the vehicle to pull that trailer.

I keep an extra set of everything I might need in the vehicle.

What do you think about using a Roth IRA as a component of the savings vehicle for the $25K-$100K initial steps?

Opening them up to pay for qualified educational expenses for the child's entire schools career (essentially) makes 529s a much better vehicle.

For those following:Do you have your vehicles bought in your business? 

And then we think again how real estate will be the vehicle to allow for lifestyle design (thanks, Tim Ferriss) and lots of traveling.