I’ve ended up staying here for an additional year and now in just over a month I should be capital gains exempt if I were to sell due to the 2 of last 5 years rule.

Run the numbers and make sure the extra work would be worth the money. ( Now you have 2 or 3 tenants instead of one)3) Remember to add a risk premium to your new venture, whatever it is or how that looks like.

It has been a little over 2 weeks since they have moved out and are now wanting to come back to the property.

I would personally like to make the homes as affordable as possible because so many are struggling to get into homes right now and I would really like to help in any way I can (I'm the only one involved in this deal that feels that way though...)3.

I keep the rmd the lowest possible however to secure a loan on a home I inherited I had to adjust the rmd higher...now I want to move it back where it was because I am very conservative and like to have money for the unforseen future . 

Not as much as multifamily but still more than STNL single tenant or 2 to 4 tenant type retail center properties.The larger centers they live or die by the anchor tenant so really have to know if that tenant owns or lease the space, when it was last re-imaged inside and out, and what sales they do per sq ft year over year and how they have been trending.Larger retail centers have defaults from smaller tenants with covid right now to work through so offering should have reserves built in for some not making it so buy in cap rate on existing NOI might go down in the short term as tenants are lost and tenant replaced.

In 3 years i can get a loan because then i have a job and show the bank that i receive x amount a month but now i am a little bit stuck.

So why would you pull your STR off the market for a year and make less money for a (now) tenant that you know nothing about...?

I've been on the sidelines with real estate investing for about 2 years now given this highly volatile and high interest rate environment (at least relative to recent years).

@Justin Whitfield I wouldn’t invest in syndication right now because many of them are behind on payments and we’ve even seen some reports on the forums of some that have failed and taken over $200,000 of one investors money.