The sale of our home will provide us with approximately $150,000 to allocate toward investments.At this stage, we feel most comfortable focusing on long-term rentals.

You could structure the deal as an installment sale or a lease option so the property owner doesn't see a large capital gain tax payment for the sale.And good on you for helping out!

Yes, our motel property is for sale.

This will also allow you to avoid taxes on the sale.

Where I am in New Jersey, the numbers wouldn't work out at all, but those numbers are good on your sale and rent for the build cost, especially since they should appreciate there in Little Rock steadily.

OPIf you have a company with a Sales tax license.  

Last August a decent pre-foreclosure opportunity came available on the MLS and my agent took us to see the home and submitted two offers below asking that were too low for the seller at the time.Apparently the seller was able to avoid foreclosure and the home delisted after it didn’t sale.

Say they sold the properties over 3 year period and could not sell the rentals together as a portfolio.Could they put the money from each sale into a DST then use the total to buy a expensive rental property?

Usually in the year following your purchase, the property appraiser will reevaluate the house based on the new sales price.  

Buy a lot and build a house for sale in 2026.