Eliminate debt, establish a budget, and save.

@Andy GibsonI can go ahead and eliminate 1 and 3 for you.  

Eliminate debt, establish a budget, and save.

You eliminate 90-95% of the buyers with a renter in place. 

Like you see now, eliminating pets also eliminates a large chuck of prospective tenants. 

A PM would eliminate any guessing and know what they could get.

Additionally, this structure eliminates the need for active management, as the real estate assets within the DST are managed by the sponsoring entity.As an investor your level of activity would include collecting monthly distributions, receiving  quarterly reports on investment, file taxes annually and 1031 exchange your investment every 7-10 years (sometimes shorter depending on the market).

It would be nice, however, if there was a way to eliminate some of that noise.

Eliminate debt, establish a budget, and save.

There are plenty of investors who are in a financially strong position to self-insure their properties completely, take on much larger deductibles, or eliminate certain coverages from their policy in an effort to drive down their insurance costs.