Kind of like the last cookie jar you fill before retiring so you can continue to avoid recapture until death when it goes away in the step up to your heirs.

Do you want real estate to ultimately become your primary focus, so you can retire from fighting fires?

After a year and a half, I'm breaking my BP silence because your tale has a familiar ring to it.Being a software engineer as well, when I decided I wanted to buy, I built a massive spreadsheet (it has retired even though I haven't yet) and input every property that hit the market for nearly two years.

Specialty firms typically referred to as IRA facilitators and advisors perform this type of legal service.If you qualify as self-employed and have no full time employees, a Solo 401(k) is also going to provide checkbook control, and as a retirement plan has several advantages over the comparable IRA LLC. 

We own 5 and we’re retired in our 30s :)

Unfortunately, there are no creative ways to use a property owned by a retirement account for personal use.

@Kurt Granroth have you tried their retirement calculator?

Unless you have a 401K or some other retirement to borrow against?

Oh that's right, SOLOK or SEP retirement plans.

Understand the state usury laws  as they still apply to retirement accounts. 2.