Compared to an IRA, contributions limits are roughly 10x higher, there is no custodial requirement for the 401k, you can take participant loans, you don't need the additional expense and administration of an LLC to have checkbook control, there is a built in-Roth component, a spouse can also participate, there are additional tax benefits, generally greater privacy, and the plans are often quicker to setup and cost less money over time especially compared to most IRA LLCs.

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And they have more privacy, a yard, their own 4 walls, roof, private parking, etc.Stick built investing is very lucrative but takes much bigger dollars.

Maybe with a duplex when the time is right to give you and your kiddo some privacy.

We also added a privacy fence which really sold this house, especially in this area with the size yard it had.Anyways, ironically enough, other investors started to look at this house during the same week we did (I am guessing this was their last pick too) and within a couple days, the VA was asking for best and final offer.

We are focussed on a very specific area of Uptown and on acquisitions where we can force significant appreciation - the idea being we can purchase, retrofit, rent and refinance to extract most (or all) of our initial capital outlay.  

Your agent could have better reassured your concerns by adding that: While the new laws (RESPA, TILA, TRID, etc) mean that the borrower is entitled to a new level of privacy (which you'll appreciate when you're the buyer someday) the attorney's JOB for the bank is to make sure that the numbers behind the ALTA are accurate and filled out properly (according to the law's 96pg guidebook)...

Currently I work at a technology startup in San Francisco focussed on the new construction and remodeling industry.

The small low density counties surrounded by hundreds of miles of high density counties seemed like little oases of privacy in a sea of people.

I was presented to these deals, I deleted the address just for privacy purposes but I spot checked in zillow, the estimate value of these houses are in the ballpark.