Trusts are usually not something you would consider starting out and where your in-laws are sitting on a large capital gain, they likely cannot transfer it into a trust without realising a gain - hopefully I am wrong and your team (accountant and solicitor) will know a way it could be done.

Hardly anything sits on the market very long.

To do so would have require more sitting on the sidelines than I could handle.

I was thinking that instead of using the eviction process, I could pay him a month of rent in order for him to leave quietly.

However, I figured that land was doing me no good sitting there, and I did not want to sell an asset, particularly when I could own it outright.

I located a hotel that had been remodeled back in 2010ish and was still sitting vacant, Come to find out the owners have filed for bankruptcy and the property is about to be foreclosed on by the city itself.

Quietly buy the 4 units in foreclosure, align with enough other owners to gain majority.

I'm filing suit to quiet title next week with an individual who purchased a property at tax sale that I purchased over a year later.

Scott is absolutely right, there is no one answer to your question(s).

What they failed to tell us is that we had to go to another seminar after we paid, sit through another 3 days, cough up another $10000 with our pledge to give them another $30000 for additional training (boots on the ground) supposedly in our town.