Wondering if you have advice on me just being the bank, where I purchase a house and structure a rent to own with him and have him build up a 30% cash down payment and some equity and then me sell the house to him at a locked in price.  

You may have heard that staging your home properly can make a big difference when you sell your house, but what exactly is home staging, and is it really worth your time and effort?

Also make sure to build on a property located in a desirable location with larger pop density and if holding for rentals, charge median rent for that market as lenders want to see a bigger pool of buyers/renters available to occupy/sell. 

If you foreclose and take it back then you can resell it later but if you are owed $25,000 and it sells at foreclosure sale for $40,000 you don't get paid $40k.

It's the basic formula for selling an online course that teaches you nothing you cannot learn on your own.

It could include selling well below market value, giving a majority interest to your partner (like 51%).

This may affect value or time required to sell.7) Adding an ADU does not make the property a duplex.

And a condo can take longer to sell when you exit compared to a detached home.

I agree with the others who said you should sell the house. 

We scraped the old house and we build new home, where the houses are selling close to the $1.8M What was the outcome?