This keeps your cost basis and deferred gains intact while offering liquidity and flexibility—you can sell shares gradually to spread out taxes and still receive passive cash flow, often exceeding current rental yields.A pure DST strategy can also work for passive income, but as you noted, not all DSTs are created equal.

Basically dollar cost averaging. 

House hacking is an excellent strategy, especially with the potential to use an FHA loan to secure a property with a low down payment. 

It would/could be only 15% capital gains tax and yes you could/would deduct all selling costs including commissions and transfer taxes.

In the future, I’ll factor in contractor costs more.

What happens if you buy the SFH and hate renting it by the room but the cost to maintain is too much by yourself.

While it will not reduce the actual cost it will help with the monthly cash flow.I am curious if this was a single-family house converted into a double.

They just came out with a BabyBox, even smaller one that circumvents state housing lows and falls in as an RV.

Co-living will be necessary due to housing cost. 

To me at my current knowledge level, this deal only works if taking over the loan - to limit the out of pocket money to acquire the property since the outside reno and new septic would take up the bulk of rehab costs.