I do think there's value is both types of investing (Stock Market vs Active Real Estate) as well as using retirement accounts to help control taxes.

It's another point of control that can impact your situation.

A joint venture or lease option with a rehabber where you either lease it to them so they can have control and fix it up and then exercise their option. 

I just wanna get out of the 9-5 and control my time again.

If it's de titled you just but, remove, and build in most cases. 

Downside is: Onerous to keep DTI in control and to keep enough cash for reserves.Non-qm loans.

If you cannot afford to buy today you might negotiate a ROFR in your lease where you have firsts rights to purchase if the owner every decides to sell the real estate.If you would own one space in a condo type for office or retail you have to be really careful with WHO is running the association because you will likely be a small percentage owner versus the overall spaces and have more limited control and input to what happens to the project as a whole.  

The current Deed specifies what interest the deceased parent had, and can control what happens to that parent's interest when he/she dies.   

But you can't control how people live.This has ignited a question in me for @James Wise @Nathan G.

I contemplated the idea of just changing the design concept to have it be attached to the main home, but even in that scenario, the explicit CCR's against even renting one room seemed too controlling to be sane, considering that if this worked as we wanted, there were like 200 other nearly identical situations with lots with homes in that neighborhood that we would have just wanted to rinse and repeat that strategy.