I retired from the Army about two years ago, and during the last 3 years serving I started investing in real estate for extra income on the side.

I “substituted” the note I purchased for the $50,000 seller financed note (which was “retire”) and hence ending up paying $27,000 for the $55,000 house.5.

Don’t let UDFI on leveraged real estate scare you away from investing in your IRA, it can still make you a lot of retirement money.  

.• If you want to get involved in syndications or passive real estate investing but you don't have enough in liquid cash for the minimum investment, you can use your retirement accounts like a self-direct IRA to do so!

Our goal is for long term growth and to have a cash flow of 100k in 15 years when we hope to do early retirement from the Navy. 

Nobody expects their retirement account to cash flow while they are working.

He's just like "I make $300K per year from my medical profession job, I'm going to make my life simple and aggressively pay down the mortgage, then do it one more time on another property, and that's it - early retirement." 

I'm looking at a community for people to move into and support each other, move of a progressive retirement type community, but we will not be in the city limits.I have thought about pulling one up beside my house and renting it;)

A few years later Nickerson “retired”, Lowery wrote his own book, and included “flipping” properties - what’s now referred to as “wholesaling”.   

But, nearing retirement and then, will be looking more at the type of vehicle  you supply.