Other than this approach (and no selling financing/deferred sales trust) is there any other approach to defer tax on the sale of your primary residence when your taxable gain is over $500K?

But those will be >$500k and not sure if it would fit your model (although not sure I know the approach you are looking to take...are you looking to buy & hold, house hack, flip, wholesale?)

This approach tends to appeal to computer programmers, a new segment of the freshly affluent in our society who have made plenty of money out of math and are already half-deluded by their success in computers into believing that equations applied to concrete, earth, wood, steel, human failings, weather, and the inexorable passage of time will yield a golden system that anyone can use to become fabulously wealthy out of land and the structures built on it.Regard the mathletes and their beliefs with a healthy dose of skepticism, drill down past all the fascination to what these numbers are supposed to offer you in the way of insight, and you'll be fine.

I've bought many Fannie Mae houses and found that they are more flexible on pricing for the ones approaching 90 days on the market.  

I was approached by a company offering to put the house under contract for a long term lease (up to 2 years) in which they find someone interested in rent to own. 

We've been approached by a contractor to sell one of the homes.

Hope I've found the right forums and asking the right question.First time owner of small retail strip. Been an owner for 4-5 years, learned quite a few things already, among which is that a commercial kitchen is not s...

Long story, but he lost his mom a few years ago and was in foreclosure when an investor approached him to save their home. 

If so, you have engaged in an ad homenim approach.

Glad you brought up this topic because this is the avenue I was hoping to go!