Length of time, costs?

Your dti's will still be affected by this house and you are truthfully still going to incur admin time dealing with it monthly and yearly.My advice if you want to sell it OF would be to list it on the mls, get a 15-25% down payment and make it an arms length transaction.

Since I think we can all agree on the answer as no - a court would not look at that as an arms length transaction and thus give you zero asset protection (note not a lawyer just someone with some common sense)

Thanks most likely that data is not accurate and not an arms length transaction.

A buyer cannot profit as an agent off a short-sale transaction since it is Arms Length.

You mention difficulties finding the deal (what are you doing to find deals currently) and then you mention problems funding the deal via private money and mention length at job and income.

Can't believe the alleged lengths at which this couple went to break the law. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6356775/Airbnb-landlords-agree-pay-San-Francisco-2-25-million.html

A lot of tenants in my market want more than a one year lease.I would like to see some data on the average length of tenancy between the two strategies.

At the size of your posts I'm sure you know what youre doing screening wise, high credit scores, high qualifications, job length, 3x, and so on.

@Paul Dalton,  Simply looking at the length of time you held a property does not definitely tell you whether or not your property qualifies for 1031 treatment.