Yes, I know we do that when we invest in stocks, bonds, or mutual funds.

We have met with two "financial advisors", and they both knew nothing about real estate, or commodities, or gold, etc....They were actually stock brokers, and that's about it.

Just sold some stocks and got $21k.

Not a lot of management problems there, but those kind of people want garbage disposers etc fixed within 24 hours.You also wrote; we have managed to build up a fair amount of equity Yeah and a lot of stock market "investors" were geniuses from '91-'00.

There is an 8 week plan.There is a book on value investing if you want to invest in the stock market.

No different that a stock or other investment.

@Ana Vhan, any stock broker with the right license can sell DSTs. 

DSTS can be sold by any stock broker with the right license. 

I can appreciate not choosing to defer taxes for an extended period when it comes to certain asset classes like stocks and bonds that are held in retirement plans.

Strategies must be flexible, adaptable and change with the environment, but all are based on a foundation of principles, theories and law that doesn't really change, the foundation is stable.