Sellers should also be open to alternative negotiations and market timing to maximize property value in shifting market conditions.Buyer Strategies: Buyers should explore off-market properties, distressed assets, and opportunities in gentrifying areas.

Alternatively, can you use either unit as an STR to increase cash flow even further?

Not when there are so many alternative methods of engagement towards resolve of which past clients have appreciated.

There are alternatives note investors have and thats new origination's where of course you will have some bummers but your not starting out with a defaulted borrower at the get go.

This would help us benchmark and explore simpler alternatives while understanding how complex the structure mentioned above truly is.I assume they are not actively managing their business?

The alternative is I pay cap gains taxes and dump the capital into my rebuild project on my primary which would allow me to rebuild without any financing at all. 

I'm generally a proponent for alternative lenders if they can provide better leverage or if they are needed due to time constraints.

Put it down in the stupid tax column and the cost of learning about the different types of alternative invesements that are out there. 

With my last (2 years ago), I had to take an alternative exit strategy to avoid a loss.

Do you think that taking bigger risks may have alternatively landed you in a dark and cold place?