I am curious about skills transfer and success in career change.

If you are meaning purchase an investment property, then that is absolutely something you can do with an IRA or 401k, so long as it is accessible for transfer.  

I have 30k that in a 401k, that I am going to transfer into a self directed IRA.

This is how I bought my first rental.Also, when you get those credit card offers to give you a zero percent balance transfer, you can simply write yourself [or LLC] a check for the full amount of the line available on the card and use that money for free during the promotion period [usually 12-24 months].

If this concept is a franchise there might be a franchise transfer fee and also you might have to meet liquidity and asset based requirements to get approved.

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TRANSFER: The mortgage or deed of trust will be due on transfer and will not be assumable except the note will include the provision “Borrower has the right to sell the property on wraparound financing whereas Borrower continues to pay Seller directly and remain fully responsible for repayment the note.”

A contract for deed, is essentially an owner finance where the title is not going to be transferred for 180 days to the purchaser.

Or, if your buyer is not locked up in time, you assign the beneficial interest to your new buyer for a fee and that document gets recorded with the county recorder's office (you can run into transfer taxes this way)

(Check and see if transferring a property this way would trigger a due-on-sale clause  in any mortgages on the current properties).