At this price point, would a cost segregation study even make sense to do on a condo so that I could take advantage of accelerated depreciation? 

I should note that I did a 1031 INTO 2 of the 3 houses, and did a cost segregation study and took accelerated depreciation on all 3 to offset 2022 taxes because I had a very profitable flip that year and I am a real estate professional per the IRS.   

A underwritten lender Pre Approval provide sellers with greater assurance that the borrower can close as well as an option for accelerated closing date timeline.

In the case where the Seller still had an outstanding mortgage, this would NOT be called traditional "Seller-Financed" (rather Subject-to) and has way different contracts and definite risks involved, such as you mentioned.. and others like the due on sale clause which accelerates the full mortgage due if the original lender finds out the house was sold to another end buyer without them getting their mortgage paid off first. 

However, I also did a lot of reading and interacting with others to accelerate my learning and avoid a lot of the common mistakes.

BP Community,How are you leveraging ChatGPT to augment, automate, and accelerate your real estate ventures?

Studying commercial property investment could greatly accelerate the time line.  

*Source: https://www.redfin.com/city/5903/NC/Fayetteville/housing-market*For some areas, demand is seeing appreciation accelerate and this is the perfect recipe for a flip strategy.Demographic Insights:Younger Population: Zip codes like 28301 (27.5% between the ages of 20-34) and 28304 (23% between the ages of 20-34) have a larger proportion of residents under 34 years.

You should look to conduct a cost segregation study so that you can accelerate more of your depreciation against your income.

In an IRA there is a small tax that comes with the use of non-IRA money to accelerate the growth of the IRA.