If you're looking for buy and hold, becoming an agent and gaining access to MLS and your own deals may be very beneficial.

If you live in part of it for two out the previous 5 year period  you will be able to take out the gain from the allocation of the portion you lived in (up to 250K if single or 500K if married) tax free!.  

It looks like it is someone else's turn to gain economic advantage.I sort of get the tiny home movement, but what I don't get is why people would want them given they are generally more expensive than HUD Code homes by the time everything is done.I actually have looked into the containers for several purposes and they always seemed to end up more money than the alternatives.

Welcome Jacob  this is a great place to gain info.  

If you've never lived there you will get whacked with capital gains tax right off, unless you invest the 450K (minus commissions and closing costs) through a 1031 exchange into better cash-flowing properties like some SFRs in West Valley or a 6-plex in Taylorsville.

While taxes are certainly a consideration when I'm doing a cost/benefit on a potential sale, it wouldn't be my primary driver.Any s/t gain would be considered ordinary income.  

However, this account, while I'm no longer contributing to it, is gaining 7% annually.

I'm not saying one is better than the other, and I sure as heck am not saying that one is "always" better than the other as some would, but I am saying consider the entire return over the entire life of the investment vs the risk.Entire return is cash flow + capital gains, projected into the future then discounted to the present value.

Feel like in just that last few weeks I've gain a vast knowledge just from being on this site.

My net gain was about 134K.I wish I could say that this investment was all genius and foresight, but of course there's always a little luck, and perhaps even some divine intervention!