As Bill mentioned, the best way to decide would be to get a free cost/benefit analysis to help you determine if you would benefit.

"jesse" who I will call him, The cell mate friend of that rotten GC I mentioned earlier.

However, as I mentioned in my original post, my immediate goal is to move out of our current townhouse into a larger single-family home that better suits my family’s needs (we have a baby and a big dog).

Yes, one approach is to continue with finding other cash flowing property.Let me suggest some other ideas for you to ponder, especially since you've also mentioned you are looking hard at DST's:What about Opportunity Zone funds? 

Hadn't heard Azibo mentioned before so I'll look into that.I'm purchasing with a bit of equity to start, plus I'll have put 25% down on purchase and am making a few upgrades.

For example:Second, under their "About us" link, click on "Management" and you'll see a "Meet the Team" page where there's the following photo/info for this James LaPushner fellow you mentioned (which says he was born in New Zealand):However, if you do a reverse Google image search on this photo, you'll find that it's posted on several other sites, including this one: https://planetaseminarov.ru/people/konstantin-baksht.htmlHere's a photo of him from this page:This page is written in Russian, but if you translate it, it says his name is Konstantin Baksht, he lives in Moscow Russia, and he is the owner and CEO of the international consulting company Baksht Consulting Group. 

As mentioned, one could run it sec8, for more $, and the sec8 waiting list has been full for 7+ years now.

Not to mention the insanely high distributions.

Here's the deal: While searching on platforms like Zillow is helpful and anyone can do it like you mentioned, that's not why you need a solid agent.

Funny that you mention a Top Golf because part of this saga I didn't mention is that at one point the developer who was failing at rezoning this site was "threatening" to open up a Top Golf on this parcel smack dab in the middle of the city.