You can protect yourself with a short contract period.

Period - end of statement.

Say they sold the properties over 3 year period and could not sell the rentals together as a portfolio.Could they put the money from each sale into a DST then use the total to buy a expensive rental property?

I assumed this would be the case because the rest of what California has to offer kind of sucks.

The main issues a lot of investors/PM's run into is the inspection period since Section 8 inspections are no walk in the park.

We are planning to hold it for 5 years and bought a rate cap to cover the entire hold period. 

.: Quote from @Jennifer Turner: Has anyone ever sold a property with seller financing then later extended the repayment period or modified the terms of the loan with the buyers?

I rest my case.And here is my older post on finding good CPAs:https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/51/topics/1222774-expla...

They were abandoned and needed significant work which wasn't a huge issue but in terms of HUD owned properties i heard there can be significant processing periods.

White Oak color and Walnut color are the two main ones you want to focus on, depending on the rest of the design in the house!