I moved all of her old retirement money into a self directed IRA/Solo 401K and started putting her money to work through real estate lends.

We are only selling completed homes with our own in house financing currently at 3.75%, a huge discount from most bank rates.We are a long time property provider for some of the bigger podcasters: Real Estate Guys Radio, Marco Santorelli (Norada), Kathy Fetke (RWN) Jason Hartman ( Empowerd Investor) GRE (Keith Weinhold), Whitecoat Investor Group and more We also work with American Homes for Rent, Invitation Homes, Crescent, Haven Realty (JP Morgan) to name a few on the institutional side We are partially owned as of 2022 by Sumitomom Forestry, which means we have no bank debt and self fund all our building projects.

As for income verification, I require the applicants two most recent paystubs and if self employed I need their most recent tax return.

That will be you one day.Your future self will thank you (in 10 years).

Self storage is great.  

If you go back to work as self employed, there are some NonQM programs out there that can do a cash out refi after just 1 year of bank statements or P&L. 

I spent a decade in advertising, before founding and running a custom wood shop for another decade, so 'm pretty good at the self-promotion.I agree with you that the more gorilla approach would be most effective and that's actually what i've been doing – calling RE agents in my service area with active listings, introducing myself to property managers and leasing agents...To answer your question, I will have to handle the work myself for 6-12 months to build out the SOPs and field service management systems, but I have a lot of relationships for those looking to "do the work".I'll check out the meet up and would love to grab a cup of coffee, I'll shoot you an email.

Quote from @Dominic Mazzarella: Quote from @Cody Maxwell: I currently am building spec homes in a rural area in Colorado and have been self funding the spec builds.

I don't see a 401k/IRA as a competition with real estate as with the correct setup, you can self-direct 401k/IRA funds into real estate.

I’d be willing to pay for them to sign up as I think it would help with on-time rent payment.