It's your primary so you can look into the primary residence tax exclusion. 

You can still rent out for another year because you lose out on the personal residence capital gains exclusion. 

The biggest challenge that I did not anticipate and I didn't see mentioned in any book, blog or podcast I used was not factoring in the losing of the homestead exclusion.

I own a few LTRs and try to work exclusively with investors. 

Wholesalers that look exclusively for deals on the MLS are going to fail 98% of the time.

It won’t help you like you think it will.You can ask for a pet and still have a legitimate need for an ESA in the eyes of his and a judge, since the two are not mutually exclusive your time is better spent questioning the actual ESA documentation.

I want to go larger multifamily or commercial one day but with the rates going up it might be better for me to wait for wait for rates to drop and 1031 exchange later Rents going up though isn't exclusive to the bay area, that's a nation wide thing right now...I agree appreciation is higher (dollars wise) here but there's also other places seeing hefty appreciation but on a percentage basis.Certain places here make it really hard to raise rents on existing tenants and next to impossible to screen in a meaningful way...and then worse case an eviction you're going to be in for more then a headache.For context, a KC property I'm familiar with has nearly doubled in price over 6 years (175k to close to 350k today).

The lease broker also wants exclusivity for the property but seems open if we now predefine potential tenants we would like to bring in on our own. 

You are limited to 16k for a gift that would be tax free, anything more incurs taxes that are generally (possibly exclusively?)

The capital gains exclusion is for military members that moved for a permanent change of station.