Monetize your property.Charge for early check in and late check out

However, they have told me they have an interest in growing their portfolios in all markets as I may monetize my project in other communities.

Either or would work.My other option is to purchase a nicer personal home (2br, 2ba, more sqft) and rent out my current primary residence for the $400/mo net profit.

There's 3 completely empty rooms(unfinished) in the basement that I'd love to be able to monetize so I was thinking of building storage units and offering them for $45/month or so. 

It's called a Monetized Installment Sale. 

The wholesaler is simply selling paper - it's up to you to take the deal and monetize it.I recently did a wholesale deal with an investor who completely screwed it up - instead of him making a quick 10k profit he decided to slowplay the thing by dragging his feet, taking 4 months to paint a 1200 ft SFR to end up walking away with only $3200. 

Instead, suggest that he look into doing a monetized installment sale.

And legends, are very easy to monetize.   

@Rhonda Wilson Another option for you to consider Monetized Installment Sale.

I'm open to any options for monetizing the property(renting, buying a fixer-upper and reselling, building on raw land) My personal goals are as follows:Get my dad into real estate investing.