Being the military, it had that definite institutional overtone to it, but the basic premise was the same.I recently toured a new senior's complex in which on end - for those who were still relatively self sufficient - had individual units (bedroom, sitting room / kitchenette ... effectively a bachelor apartment but without a full kitchen) clustered together in groups of 4 with their own common room / kitchen and courtyard.On the other side of the complex were units for those who required more assisted living.  

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@Kyle McVay I self-managed my first 5 units and then transferred all new units to a PM.

Courtesy of Dodd Frank, its doubtful the self employed will ever be viewed by lenders as favorable as a w2 employee.

Personally, I self manage but have built systems to allow it to be fully remote and very passive.

Than learn with that safety net until your ready to take things back over to self-manage again. 

You might check with your Self-Directed IRA Trust Company/Custodian, they might have a brokerage connection capability where you can setup a brokerage account tied to your IRA, then you can with that brokerage to invest in various public market investments, in some cases stocks, mutual funds, ETF's, treasuries, and CD's.

We live in San Diego so would be long-distance, TBD if we self-manage or enlist a PM. 

Maybe talk with some realtors who have people who cannot get a loan because they are self employed, but have plenty of down payment.

Otherwise, you will likely be copying someone else's false expectations.I have reviewed hundreds of such self-constructed logs, and most of them will not hold water.