If it is an employer-sponsored 401k plan, then your employer will control the investments, and you will be limited to the stocks, bonds, or mutual funds they generally offer.

The reason for the few extra pieces of paperwork is to help people with no experience have a more controlled process.

If the property is subject to Los Angeles Rent Control, you can't do STR under any circumstances. 2.

All Ira’s are custodial but there are plans that have a checkbook control feature allowing you to essentially bypass the custodian and save time and fees.  

Now when I see the law AB 1482, it says single family home not owned by a corporation is exempted from rent control provided they give notice of exemption (and the line in CAR form says, tickmark Notice of Exemption for notice to be in effect which we did not)The property will come to market for rent in month of July.

With rent control, AB1482, the cash flow increase is limited.  

So it's not like it is completely out of control.

For the rent controlled units, I expected the market rent to hit the rent increase limit. 

That way you have a bid " Apples for Apples "I  would have only labor bid.You control products.Don't fall for contractor that forces you to sing the contract. 

My goal right now is to retire my fiance and try to be more in control of what we do in our lives when it comes to making money.