Take safety precautions to prevent accidental drownings and pool related accidents, such as establishing rules for use in your rental agreement, making sure it has a fence with a gate that prevents children from entering the pool area on their own, and requiring the tenant to have renter's insurance.

The property held by the 401K or IRA self directed has to be at arm's length from you, your spouse, children. 

Do you know the identities of her children in the Philippines?

Columbus is home to Nationwide Children's Hospital and Wexner Medical Center which get a lot of travel nurses.

Columbus has seen great appreciation that is projected to continue due to large organizations such as Intel, Honda, Nationwide Children's Hospital and Wexner Medical Center investing a lot of money to expand operations and create many new jobs in the area.

My experienced investors basically just needed me for basic stuff, and my inexperienced ones couldnt take a step without me and were like children. 

Hello, When you want to pay your children out of your real estate business, do you need to put them on the payroll just like a normal employee or is there a way to avoid paying tax, workmans comp and etc?

If it is medical personel, then I would think you want to be in an area with multiple hospitals or facilities like UTSW/Parkland/Scottish Rite/Children's area in Dallas.   

These are my father's properties to be passed down to his children. 

We did a lot of case studies including our story which was the use of a combination of sec 121 primary residence sales and 1031 exchanges to end up buying a 53 ft sailboat with tax free dollars and raising our 4 children on it for 10 years using cash flow from deferred tax in vacation rentals - never paying a penny in capital gains tax.