I have a little over $10k liquid between my savings and taxable brokerage accounts.

If you are talking about the interest earned, you would need to have a massive repair account in the bank ($50K plus month to month) to even earn enough interest to create a taxable event. 

Here is how I interpret the tiered structure:  If you're in the 10% or 15% tax bracket for ordinary income, then the amount of long-term capital gains that keeps your total taxable income at or below the 15% bracket is taxed at 0%.If you're in the 25%, 28%, 33%, or 35% tax bracket, then the amount of capital gains that keeps your total taxable income at or below the 35% bracket is taxed at 15%.If you're in the 39.6% tax bracket, then your long-term capital gains rate is 20%.At some point, if the capital gains is large enough, AMT rules come into play.The problem with your scenario is how the IRS will perceive your intent.  

The partial 1031 Exchange allows you to "manage" your tax liability by keeping the taxable gain under certain thresholds that would otherwise trigger your higher tax rates.  

Moving your 401k does not have to be a taxable event.

Nevertheless, those lendings are registered to the french tax administration (to be sure it's not considered as a taxable gift), but nowhere in the US.

Capital gain due to depreciation taken since May 1997 is taxable as unrecaptured depreciation.In your parent's scenario, it would appear that up to five and one half years of depreciation would be taxed at 25% while the profit attributed to appreciation would be excluded from capital gains taxes

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There's several semi-private lenders (Visio and B2R are two that come to mind) that have no limits on number of properties or taxable income issues that can result with multiple rentals.

For residential investment properties, (all res. properties, even if owner is on-island) that would amount to a yearly $3.50 per $1,000 of taxable value, for properties under $500,000.