Alternatively, transferring the property to a revocable trust provides income for your parents, avoids probate, and keeps you as a beneficiary, but it doesn’t allow for a 1031 exchange and could trigger gift tax.Focus on aligning the structure with your goals, whether for immediate reinvestment or estate planning, and ensure compliance with Connecticut laws.This post does not create a CPA-Client relationship.

Before the pandemic, Magnolia alone (not including Baylor University or any other Waco attractions) was drawing in 10,000 tourists a week to Waco and a total of 1 million tourists a year.

You would continue to defer all of the tax and receive potential cash flow until the market becomes more attractive for you. 

I will look at a few factors, rent for area, total mortgage payment with property taxes( which can be crazy in Detroit), investment in neighborhood, I like looking into places where they are building homes and apartments that attract young professionals or families , and also looking at potential to make a single family home into a duplex or something can add an adu or transform a basement to a studio apartment!

Alternatively, the Short-Term Rental (STR) loophole allows losses to offset W2 income if you materially participate.

If traditional banks aren't providing favorable terms, consider alternative lenders like HML or PML.  

The second of two homes I bought when I sold the rental, I would have bought a more expensive one as the one I got was close to the university and tended to attract students which had higher turn over (though it may also be my local market).I'd also look up how to do a 1031 (I think that is what it's called, I'm not in the US) where you defer capital gains taxes on rentals by buying another within a set period of time.

The property surrounded by a number of restaurants, and attractions.

not sure what the attraction to invest with these folks was.. but it does sound like a meltdown and some pretty poor operators.

@Bill HaleyHad a meeting this past week with some individuals who raise some serious $ and discussing what works and does not work in an offering and one of the things these people were saying is real estate offerings using crypto and blockchain / tokenization is not attracting many HNW individuals.