Keep in mind you will need to invest in the same year as the sale of your property, and a cost segregation study / bonus election will need to be a part of the investment(s) you roll into. 

I'm considering rolling all or part of an IRA into fully-passive real estate investment funds.I'm personally interested in single family and small multi family.

If you roll a pair of dice 1000 times, it's going to come back snake eyes very close to 1/36th of the time.November to February is always a bit interesting.

or if I can let the local FD use it as a training/test burn to reduce the amount of debris that would need to be hauled off to the landfill.  

As I get close to the property, I get a text that says "Officer took a look and the rolled up paper was filled with sand." 

However he does have the funds and he could definitely  help get the ball rolling faster. 

Section 8 does a full financial background test for them to determine how much they can afford of that $1450 rent amount based on their current income.

It isn't a bad way to start though if you can't get a mortgage on a property just yet, if you just want to test it out, or if you can find someone that will rent a property to you way below current rent rates 

I'll see if I can track down some help with this to get the ball rolling!

Their agent did them a disservice or they all knew what was going to happen (looking for the 1 in a million buyer, not caring about the data or neighborhood to put up that kind of money) just to "test it"So ask yourself this question...are you testing, or are you selling?