To me the potential for tax benefits and capital appreciation outweigh the short term benefits of selling immediately.

If you rent this out, you eventually lose that benefit.

Tax Benefits: Long-term capital gains tax rates may apply when selling after holding the property for more than a year, potentially offering tax advantages over active income.4.

The beauty is that the transaction can benefit all parties, and they can be structured to make the deal work.We wrote a book called Creative Cash that focuses on creative financing rechniques

Go to real estate investing meetups in your area, get to know local investors, read books and listen to podcasts together to figure out what you think you want to do the most and what will benefit you, depending on where you live, the most.

His team apparently hires the coffee farmers and provides them a good job, fair wages, health and pension benefits, etc.

Are there any hidden pitfalls or unexpected benefits I might have missed?

Basically it's duplex with single family price LOL so I get the both benefits.

There's the commercial corridor on Lancaster that will hopefully improve over time and be a benefit, and lastly, these are nice wide blocks with parking on both sides of the street and wide sidewalks so they feel nice and inviting and there's no drama on these blocks, very quiet. 

It takes a lot of time to prepare food, eat, and clean up so being as busy as we always are this simplifies the process quite a bit (not to mention the benefits of simplifying the digestion process for the body).