That flips as you add units, anything 5+ for example the market for buyers is near 100% pure investor - so value will be mostly determined by rental potential (cap rate)

LLC creation for rental properties is purely a liability protection strategy. 

If you're looking at just a pure financial perspective with little/no room for personal comforts, the absolute best thing you can do is live in one of those tiny homes or something like that.

Echoing what most said here but I purely would analyze the numbers. 

Quote from @Joy D.: Whoa!

This way buyers can then shop buyer agents and the commission should be negotiated purely between buyers and buyer's agents which would result in zero possible collusion. 

The fact that Denver makes it vague and unclear so they can use it against us, is absolutely pure BS.

Quote from @Hannah Joy: Quote from @Bruce Woodruff: Relax....you're young, already doing great and this is not a race.

The joys of being a landlord!

Regarding limitation of taxes upon selling, you'll need to make your expenses high (at least on paper), but if your plan is to purely sell it and cash out, then you're going to end up paying capital gains taxes.