I guess the downside of them staying until September is having the money tied up until I could move onto the next property.

The obvious downside for you is that route requires a lot of capital up front and no returns for 3 years.

My hope is that I would someday be able to sell the homes+land together as a "business" based on the NOI, but want to protect my downside should I need to liquidate everything on a piecemeal basis. 

It might be worth taking a chance on that, but for our bigger projects of $10-20 million or more, we usually go with the more expensive real one.But here's the thing, you gotta be aware that these cost segregation vendors are always emphasizing the benefits and not talking much about the downsides.

@Norman Schultz@Amit M.Thank you for sharing the downside of DST's. 

I'll talk in generalities.The downside of an LLC is that you can't get a FNMA loan which has the best terms. 

Farmers might lease it but it'd have to be strictly farm land to appeal to the biggest farm audience.

This excludes any operating cash flow Your renovation can be funded by debt or by equity.Just by glancing at the biggerpockets performa, your biggest issue isn’t your purchase price it’s a negative NOI.

My biggest issue right now is capital for purchases and not finding communities.

You would have needed a big miss to the down-side to see an improvement in pricing and we simply didn't get it.