He is willing to take the risk of losing a little market upside with locking into a tangible asset he owns.I tended to be fairly consistent in annually looking at my portfolio and seeing what had performed, what had not, and re-balancing as needed (based on traditional pie chart models of diversification).  

@Jason Gilmore,There can be two models for the self-directed 401k: 1) Your account held by the custodian and all transactions would have to go through the custodian with applicable fees.or 2) Truly self-directed Solo 401k, does not require custodian.

My goal is to be able to live a comfortable life style and retirement plans for our future together is there anything I can do to make her better understand my vision for us.

Our model is buy and hold real estate through pure rentals, personals turned rentals all being class A properties so smaller margin but lower expenses.This site has tons of great sources.

We follow the southwest airlines models, we have smaller profit margins but have smaller expenses at the same time.Everyone has a their own niche and way to success. 

My favorite one was determine which business model worked best.

Here is another video of just your regular home in So CAL, rehabbed in Will Barnard Style!

Most ranch style home floor plans will have a load bearing wall below the roof ridge, the kitchen to the rear, so if that's the wall to be knocked out it will be more critical.

Just need some help with the model below.

Ambrose Evans-Prichard at the Telegraph said this last week: "The US seems caught in a Japan-style trap, endlessly masking the effect by stealing a little extra growth from the future with artificial stimulus" Then he had this: "Former Fed chairman Ben Bernanke said recently that long-term yields would never reach 4pc again in his lifetime, portraying a changed world where nothing returns to normal." http://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/5055/blog_posts/37898-interest-rates-must-be-going-up-soon-right Good hunting-