The market for buyers on QCD is going to be smaller so you are limiting your market with a QCD but we buy/sell homes all the time via QCD just need to find the right parties.  

It should not matter if they classify it as 'Barney the purple dinosaur' for taxes, the property's comparable sales are other two unit homes that will sell as two unit homes.

Mind you, the median price of a home sold in Los Angeles lately is about $950k.

Any tips or strategies would be greatly appreciated!

I'm no tax advisor by any stretch, but I believe there's significant financial criteria to meet such as like 50% of the purchase value needs to be added as improvements to the property. 

Appreciate any tips; thanks in advance!

and the fact that rent goes up overtime as well.I know some will keep pulling money out of rentals to buy more or use the money elsewhere, but then they have very little equity in the home. 

I purchased a well-maintained single-family home in a growing suburban community.

We have a small mobile home park in Indiana that we are in the process of stabilizing.

Find Brandon's videos on YouTube for the "four square" method of analyzing homes and practice.