its working well and likely in a year I can retire my wife... if she wants to.

In fact, one of my personal goals is to be my parents' retirement fund. 

Not something I'd do because having a home that is paid for when you retire is huge especially for people who have a very limited pension.

Just yesterday I was listening to a friend talk about their retirement situation.

I actually attended a richdad conference once and the speaker was also a retired CPA that had the exact same light bulb moment you did.

My parents still give me the same sage advice: "Hold on to your good job and pray that your 401k and social security will take care of you when you retire."

We have only one rental [it is my son who is hoping to retire by 35 from investments] and we brought our tenants a card with a message of extreme appreciation and $100 cash on Sunday. 

Any entity (such as a trust, another Corp, Retirement Account, etc) can own stock in a C-Corp or LLC (although there are some foreign entity exclusions that exist).  

Don’t listen to these old schools that will probably be divorced once they get to retirement, I had an ex that didn’t pay a damn thing for years and saved up a substantial amount of money guess what I got nothing out of it, you gotta make them pay or get out the way, I got a few properties but the thing is If my girl pays I can invest in more things, stocks, bonds, pay off taxes but if I have to pay for everything then why even have her around it’s foolish, this is the reason many women have a secret savings account, be careful a lot of women only stay with men who pay the bills because of money not because of love ❤️

Almost all retirement plans are protected against creditor attachment; many including myself have found ways to legally place millions of dollars of real estate, notes, and business assets into Self directed IRAs, Solo 401ks, SEP accounts, and Defined Benefit Plans.