Maybe you can make a profit using it as a short term rental or find a way to rent it at a premium or totally different strategy altogether.

I say hopefully because many of these payments are reduced or altogether eliminated by any amounts owed by the beneficiary to other government agencies, such as income taxes, loans, etc.Bottom line is that this is a business, requiring all the skills and assets and expenses necessary for all businesses.

This is not how the $500k really works, in more than one way, but it's another topic altogether. 

Ignoring the tax lien altogether.

To be honest, unless your area has super relaxed laws, I would either negotiate the unit to be vacant prior to acceptance or just skip it altogether.

If one had multiple buildings they could be moved to another building to get away from the problem altogether.  

@Kyle ScholnickI agree with you that the numbers presented on many turn-key companies' listings can be way too optimistic, if not unrealistic altogether. 

A 1031 defers paying taxes but a primary residence sale removes the tax liability from selling up to a certain dollar threshold altogether. 

It also is helpful to have a California LLC in case you ever sell that property and move into another state so that you do not need to form a new LLC altogether with new operating agreement, just re-register in the new state as a new foreign LLC.

IMO, they should do away with ESAs altogether and make everyone qualify their pets as Service Animals, with the appropriate training...