Patience and precision in your pricing strategy will pay off.Active inventory has increased by a substantial 37.75%, providing more choices for buyers.

Another could be exchanging into DSTs that will convert with a 721 UPREIT, allowing you to have some liquidity in ~3 years to go into syndications.

Rather than exchange into a bad deal they just held off selling all together. 

While no money is exchanged hands the bottom line in the scenario you have laid out you are giving the homeowner a loan that is paid from the sale of the home. 

Only, their rent is extremely low because they used to do construction work for the previous owner in exchange for a lower rent.

I'll end this exchange by saying: I genuinely hope someone offers you encouragement if you're ever feeling down and need it, and I will even volunteer to be the encourager if that day (God forbid) ever comes.

There are just too many variables to answer more precisely than that. 

However, this difference in rents doesn't factor in that two-story homes on average tend to be larger than one-story homes.My data source isn't super precise showing rent-to-sqft ratios, only rounding to whole dollars.

Most Importantly: If a private placement offering gives you equity in exchange for bringing investor money into their fund ("bundling") do you believe they must disclose that expenditure on their Form D Item 15: Sales Commissions and FInder's Fee Expenses?

I lost my lunch when the net take-away number appeared.It looks to me like a 1031 exchange into a DST is the way to go.