Will soon look at retiring.

He's a VA, retired of course.

Or are you looking to build long term wealth for retirement?

In order to prepare for the strategy we had to fill a paper with information such as 401k, retirement plan, credit card, ect. 

Maybe if i was 65 and wanted to get away and retire but still meet people, but I viewed it also as not sellable and as you mentioned at this time someone could have bought a piece of land for $50k or less and dropped tiny homes on it and saved 50%.

Retirement is not.I can understand retiring if you are old and broken.

Im not sure if I do enough to call it active but it's my only gig right now since I retired .No involvement , I go check on the property in Colorado on occasion to check it out the condition.from my decades of doing this you pay income tax to the state you live in..

—as long as it’s not to a retirement plan—the lender will almost certainly require a separate guarantee.

(at least for the first few properties) I do not need cash flow in the short run but my ultimate goal would be to retire early from my investment properties. 

You may have to sell the whole property to access the funds in the IRA or 401k when you retire and for required minimum distributions.