Focus on what the rents will look like post-renovation with 4 units instead of 2, and have a clear game plan for refinancing to pull your capital back out. 

As to Grant Cardone, you have to have capital to do a bigger deals... and syndications is one way you can do that (which as I understand it is the deal that Grant pitches)... combine  your money with others to do the big deal... but at the end of the day, you own $20,000 worth of a $10 million deal if you put in $20,000.  

Quote from @Jason Bohling: @Dmitriy Fomichenko here’s a link briefly describing what I’m talking about:https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/10/24/income-limit-for-0-percent-capital-gains-bracket-2025.htmlJason, you are describing selling long-term capital assets held in your personal name.Dmitriy is talking about doing a roth conversion.Two separate tax topics. 

Thoughts and suggestions or too complex and take the hit on capital gains tax as I sell my rentals?

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Spread your capital over 2 or 3 deals, 2 or 3 operators.

Then you get to pay capital gains as well.

@Nadia Jones Starting and running a fund is a separate business because it's something that you need to actively market for and regularly work on attracting capital to invest in. 

You may need some help with capital, or credit, or both.

If you paid under $230k, you’d save $30k in federal capital gains taxes and maybe another $15k or more in state income taxes.