Unless you want to cycle out of real estate (expensive, given the tax consequences) or cycle into a different assset class within real estate, I would continue holding and operating.  

For wealth preservation, I would hold physical gold ... commonly traded coins and/or bullion purchased from a reputable dealer at as close to spot price as you can get.

@Robin CornacchioThen in that case there are no tax consequences.  

If you stay to the end of the meet up there is a lot of chance to talk with the investor and get your questions answered with a smaller group than are present earlier in the Meet up when there may be 30 or 40 people there.The Meetups have ranged from flips of SFH, to flip of a SFR that will be sold as a SFR but the buyer will be renting it as a duplex (included tricks of the trade to work around the SFR zoning), to a quad that is a buy n hold where each unit can use some rehab, to a purchase of empty lot and building 3 new SFRs.

There may be a gift tax or some other consequence of this transaction.

The downside to that maybe is that the value is all in one property, as opposed to spread out over multiple (all eggs in one basket kind of situation).A possible solution to this is trading up each property individually.

I've been working on paying it down to a point where I can trade it in, break even, and finance a mid 2000s Honda Civic to save on monthly payments and gas.

So what happens as an unintended consequence is the good tenant with a service animal gets bypassed for the rental unit because of the law, because the landlord can just pick another applicant. 

@Randy Johnston   you may want to check out the new laws in Oregon about wholesaling.Randy I just did my CE and the state has now defined equatable interest as needing a re licenseIE if your trading in equatable interest  then you need a license there was a whole module on it.probably need to call the hot line on that one..  

I do not know if you eliminate your tax consequences if you finance and end up foreclosing.