Covered parking for 8 vehicles. any thoughts on agent or non-agent?

Hard to do but not impossible. 2.

I believe the new President will kill the EV mandate . ya I am a Tesla fan boy first to admit it I have owned  5 of them and was going to buy the cybertruck but I really needed a gas vehicle to get back into the fishing areas out here in the west that are 100 miles literally or more back into BLM land National forest or State lands.

Musk seems to be all too alone in arena of innovation, chasing the impossible into "done". 

My wife and I both have decent paying jobs, but after paying rent, vehicles, student loans, etc, there’s not much left over for saving, let alone 20% down.

Saving 20% down for an investment seems almost impossible today.

With regard to your "DST" and as with many highly structured tax vehicles that have a potential "self dealing" quality to them, there are a number of potential potholes you can easily step in along the way (e.g., constructive receipt doctrine, effective control over nominal 3rd party relationships, lack of genuine risk bearing and compliance with transactional terms, etc.).

this is mission impossible.. although you might have some fake lenders approach you looking to steal up front money from you.. so be careful. 

Take short-term rentals - they do provide several tax benefits, but they are hard to run and very hard to succeed at so people make the mistake of choosing the tax vehicle, get the benefit, and then lose money on the investment and hate it.

With such low rental yields, the return on investment (ROI) and cash-on-cash (CoC) return are negative when factoring in mortgage payments only, not including any other factors.In this market, it seems almost impossible to make a profit using traditional rental property investing strategies.