You’re setting yourself up for long-term financial growth, and teaming up with your friends is a smart way to ease into it while covering your mortgage.A few tips to keep in mind:Location is key.

Either do the blocking and tackling of one on one help here or stop with the "I'm so smart, you should be better" nonsense. 

What does exist are CHOICES of various ways of doing things with pluses and minuses to each.

As you said you are currently still employed there, so you can't do it right away until you leave employment there.Second, once you've rolled over, you can setup your SDIRA as a regular account (where fund release has to go via your custodian) or setup a LLC checkbook option, where you can write out a check for your choice of investments.Yes you will have full control over the use of funds in your rolled over SDIRA. 

Smart - I would have never thought of that!

@Zach Rumfielda smart agent can help you but you should be able to use Zillow. 

You’ve come to the right place to connect with some very smart investors.

Was curious if having a multi-family I could live in and house-hack as a starting point is actually a smart idea or just one that's going to set me back financially?

With recent changes in the market, I know there a lot of smart investors in the Dayton area who pursue this strategy and have swept in to pick many of these properties up.

Perhaps smartly convert it over to a Roth IRA to have tax free for the rest of your life.