Because if I'm trapped going larger than $5M in the future, I'd probably look for something smaller that I can control now rather than always having to use it in a syndication

That would probably require a professional. 

@Jaycee Greene Price range probably up to 350k ish 

After 2 years you can apply for a “Rent consideration” (I think that’s what they called it) as long as you still live there and that may allow you to increase rents by more than the annual allowance (probably designed for unit that are very low rents).

Our limited resources though will (probably?!)

If less than two years, cost seg probably isn't a good route.

Selling and buying something else you want keep and doing a cost seg in would help with the tax burden probably better in this situation.

@Unal Baris Kancoglu - if it is an easy switch out, probably $8k right now.  

Very creative but probably not doable1.

Quote from @Quinn Olivarez: If I were the original seller, I would tell the bank I sold the house so that I could get the ball rolling on getting it out of this sub to agreement that is probably not enforceable in most jurisdictions.