want to get to a point that I am living off unearned income and not earned income. 

Carrying out a comprehensive property analysis is key to pinpointing amenities that will draw in tenants and optimize rental revenue.Decide on your plan for house hacking- will you reside in one unit and lease out the other, or rent out both units and live elsewhere?

Title transferred to a living trust of which debtor is beneficiary.  

Although my rental listings has been live for over a week, I have had very few leads from them.

I live in North Dakota so we get all the weather extremes.

A friend of mine owns a duplex in Mayfair that he lived in the first floor and rented out the second floor.

Gross negligence means:An act taken without exercising even the most basic amount of care owed to others.A deliberate disregard for the safety or well-being of another person.A lack of care that demonstrates reckless disregard for the safety or lives of others.A conscious and voluntary disregard of the need to use reasonable care, likely to cause foreseeable grave injury or harm.In other words, if there are potential hazards that exist at your property that you are ignoring, you could be considered grossly negligent.

Lived in it for 2.5 years while slowly fixing up the house and property.

Sure there are taxes on that each year, but no management issues, etc..Even a 1031 doesn't make sense sometimes.Keep in mind, someone might sell a $600k property with a $1 million basis if they have don't more than one 1031 in their lives!

Client B: Rob is currently under contract for a house for his little sister to live in.