I know someone recently who had a NY loan and they could not find a servicer to touch it because it was being self serviced - so they had no way of selling it as no investor would take on that risk.The other concern is usury laws.

Or they've dealt with one of the 50% of realtors that sells 1 house or less per year.

My PMLs are people with self-directed IRA who are perfectly fine with 5-year term while earning double-digit returns passively tax-free in their SDIRA. 

My full-time gig is to invest in income-producing websites (digital real estate) and I'm working backwards to first increase the authority of my website to then eventually rank organically in Google.Given my experience building sites, I personally don't think SEO is as complicated as any agency makes it out to be.

And unless you go into some very rough areas, you won't find double digit cash returns.

Maybe in a year you could sell the note.

Sell more, especially builds from pre 20002.

Real estate loans to owner occupied properties where the business of the owner is closed down - or SHOULD be, and the owner needs some time to sell the property.  

Most of my travel nurse / medical professional bookings have come from Furnished Finder but the other sites usually appeal to other tenant types like digital nomads, relocating families, etc.  

You sell your investments whenever it no longer makes business sense to hold them, not when you "need" it for tax reasons!