Second, in some situations we can, in fact, dramatically reduce your current taxes either by after-the-fact tax strategies (for example, cost segregation and QOZ fund rollovers) or by applying advanced analysis to your specific situation (for example, Real Estate Professional status, STR material participation "loophole", past depreciation corrections, etc.).

If your goal is to open a franchise, specifically, and aren't just looking for an investment for your IRA and your IRA is not a ROTH, you might research doing a different arrangement known as ROBS (RollOver as a Business Startup). 

I know I can switch or roll over to my current employer 401K (which I'm currently investing the minimum match). 

Account ClosedIt depends on what you mean by investing in a business.To invest in your own business, you must use a Rollover as Business Startup (ROBS) plan. 

This will give them ability to rollover other retirement accounts and make new contributions.

Should he just rollover and die?

In fact, I was able to rollover my 401k into a self-direct IRA which I use for RE.

Thus it limits a high-income individual's (like @Andrey Y.) ability to contribute to a backdoor Roth IRA to a pro-rata basis rather than the full annual limit ($5,500/year) unless he's willing to convert the rollover IRA into a Roth and take the one-time tax hit.Out of curiosity, do any of your investors with 1099 income use solo-401k's to fund their real estate ventures?

If it proves itself to be a scam by a competitor to make airbnb look bad, then I doubt that airbnb will just roll over and play dead.

But somehow the California Builders and the Apartment Association decided to roll over on this.