In a DST, you're just dealing with the sponsor. 

Also, if you can get a home built after 2003 and has good wind mitigation, there is a chance you will have options besides Citizens insurance (the state sponsored insurance program).

@Jesse KindraOn the surface, yes, your consulting work would qualify as a business capable of sponsoring a Solo 410k plan.  

Smaller strip centers with a few tenants.If not a 1031 exchange but accredited investor then sometimes people will want to invest with me as a sponsor on some retail deals.

These activities have different tax and risk profiles and should therefore be segregated.If you personally run a LLC engaged in flipping and wholesaling, that creates self-employment capable of sponsoring (not owning) a Solo 401(k).  

In order for them to have gotten a student visa, they would have had to have a sponsor - i.e. the parents guaranteeing their expenses.They're choosing California, which is an expensive state, so I would think the parents would have some money.There's a risk to their visa, if they were caught in some kind of felony, so I think the likelyhood of them destroying your property is smaller than with an American, in my opinion.I also believe that Asian countries see honor and shame as much more important than the way American see it today.

You, as the sponsor, also own membership units with more voting and control rights over the company/deal.Re: your small property question - syndication isn't ideal for small $ value deals because there are high fixed costs, mainly legal.

You need a Broker to sponsor you at some point.

I have a potential note that the sponsor is asking me to be a part of.

The 7 Republican sponsors know how to kill new industry (wind, solar) that unfairly creates higher margin electricity at lower production cost.