would get estimates and see how long to recover the money and your long term plan for the property

My plan is to start house hacking.

This would apply to your unit.Your biggest concern with setting the rent should be the near future. 1) Your insurance is guaranteed to go up, probably dramatically.  2) You may get an insurance assessment bill to cover the CA Fair Plan losses.

According to him, some of the DST operators/brokers work together to sell off DST assets much sooner than planned.

The game plan would be to keep this structure for 1-2 years with future full sale.

It sounds like you’ve got a solid plan and a great passion for real estate investing.

If I had to leave a takeaway from this post before getting too far in it would be that whatever goals are had you have, we have these goals for a reason and typically it does not go exactly as planned but even if it doesn't go as planned, we can pick up where we left off and give it a fresh start.

I love my job and plan to do this type of work forever.

Make sure your financial advisor understands real estate taxation, financial planning and tax planning. 

****little about the deal that I’m putting together I have a piece of land that that is permit ready plans approved ready to build on held it my property with no lien.