In our area, it is rare to find a gas station where the real estate is owned by the operator.

I think will find that out-of-state will be much more operationally challenged than local.

This way, investors could avoid the tax burden since the operations would fall under a European entity.

Don't operate under the, "we get along and can figure it out" mindset. 

How about using SDIRAs not to hold assets but to operate businesses?

As a smaller, self-managed landlord I think solutions that offer that kind of scheduling/logistics framework are solving for one of the most long-standing self-managed challenges we've had for years: how to scale and systematize operations when you're are landlord or PM out there hustling for your next deal. 

I am betting a lot of media is going to be coming out of how under insured people were because to be fully covered was "too expensive".

Annual net operating costs for option 1 are basically the same as the annual revenue.

Helped my clients partner up and close on the property, then signed a net lease with a SL operator.

Unfortunately, no one is "allowing" them to operate, @Stylianos Kalamaras.