.), but between you and I, I note that you're closer to retirement than some of our other posters, so there's nothing wrong with being conservative and safe with your nest-egg that you are still continuing to slowly and safely build up. 

I am really trying to make the most with my money and see how I can best leverage it build my empire and take over the world :) but I'll settle for not worrying about my future expenses and retirement.

If I could make a guaranteed 6.8% per year with zero risk, zero work, and zero volatility right now, I would sell all my real estate and stocks and put it all in that and retire today.

Try to save at least 10-15% of your salary (either in retirement vehicles or a boring ole' savings account).  

The house is an emotional drain on the owners and they may step away altogether for the $70k and that would be fine, however I have an inkling that I may be able to sweeten the deal for them by giving them a cash flow stream into their retirement.  

You can learn more about it's benefits here:http://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/2810/blog_posts...This is regarding a retirement account.

However, if your goal is to create continuing source of predictable and sustainable cash flow for something like retirement planning or replacing job alternative then keeping the property as a rental would better meet those needs.  

So.... if you have any retirement accounts, those can be used as reserves as well.

In my experience, a DST is generally marketed as a retirement investment where you're not going to be concerned with getting cash quickly, but you're happy with tax savings being inherited by your successors.

Remember, you won't retire tomorrow.