However, it's crucial to ensure that any repayment arrangement complies with IRS regulations governing self-directed retirement accounts.

I would like the property to have great appreciation and some cash flow to contribute to my retirement in the future.

I am also an active-duty member retiring in about a year and want to find a Real Estate (commercial or residential) skillbridge that will allow me to intern at a firm while I transition out. 

If your goal is cash flow to retire early, would you buy an 11% Cap rate deal with current interest rates?

The purpose of the retirement account is to build wealth for you to use during your retirement years.If you wish to build cash-flow and retire early you should use non-qualified funds and purchase properties in your name.

Note: I am not interested at all in using a retirement plan to BUY more properties...just to put money into it a tax-advantaged way and then using that money to buy stocks/ETFs.Thanks!

I expect to retire in the Charleston area, but that's a ways off, as I am only 56- I'll rent or sell the IOP / Wild Dunes villa and get a home with an elevator so I can 'age in place', lol.

All profits must be deposited to retirement funds. 

Have you ever encountered someone from the northern regions expressing a desire to retire in a perpetually cold and overcast place where they'd spend their days shoveling snow in sub-zero temperatures?

Although I spend like I am, I am now in need of creating wealth to retire.