While I don’t suggest that the smaller type investor purchase and utilize “exotic” vehicles like foreign asset protection trusts, family limited partnerships with outside controls, or Byzantine or convoluted maze of ownership entities, the more simple strategies of using Series LLCs, self directed retirement plans, and paying off their home mortgage to the extent of the Federal BK homestead exemptions can insure that a plaintiff attorney never even considers going after them.  

Ask anyone who ever tried to sell a cash flowing biz, it's not that easy (compared to selling a house)The best play IMO is to run a business and feed the profits into real estate.There are a million ideas, but you can start here: https://www.biggerpockets.com/biggerpockets-business-podcast Thanks for the suggestion Marcus. 

So when you say that you prefer the syndicator gets a fixed % of all the profits, are you suggesting you see better alignment with the GP just getting a straight split without LPs getting preferred returns?

For the insurance, I would suggest you contact your agent but it has not affected my insurance to have pets. 

With loan extension you might have to come up with extra payment to get DSCR in range lender will approve.That is why to go through this exercise NOW and if you know tenant wants 300k TI to extend and bank wants 300k to pay down estimated balance when new loan placed you need 600k to come up with.

Any thoughts, suggestions, or referrals on what first step to take are appreciated. 

I took your suggestion and spent the night checking through the cities Master Plan.

Any suggestion on where to start getting information on this subject?

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If you can hold on till first part of January the showings and everything else should pickup.This would be my action items: 1. hire a new agent that can sell the place, and get you numbers are rent and selling and sell the place. 2. be honest on the numbers you can get on an ARV so that you can sell it 3. start to get the conversation started with a couple lenders on what these numbers on refi would look like for you and this property 4. my suggestion would be to refi/rent before selling at a loss because if numbers work you can hold for a couple years then sell, but this is dependent on your cash position and liquidity of your situation.