No landlord headaches (main argument against buy-and-hold) and no giving up of future appreciation potential and a portion of tax benefits (main argument against selling on terms).I vacillate back and forth between buy & hold rentals vs flipping w/owner-finance; why not just do both...?

If you are finding deals outside of your feed you either need to adjust the feed's criteria or you are finding properties that aren't listed by an agent.

Even if the fund bought assets in non opportunity zones, the tax benefits would apply to said company and it's long-term holdings. 

If your modified adjusted gross income(MAGI) is above $150,000.

@Keesha DuminieI would target something where by benefit of skills, relationships, or location, you are likely to out-perform the average expectation.For instance, someone that lives in a small university town is much more likely to out-perform and fix and flips there when compared to an out-of-state flipper.

We have 8% pref and plan to refinance into GSE on year 3. We return 50% of the capital to investors. Do we split this payout like any other cashflow? Let's say we have a cumulative 70/30 split. Let's say year 3 brings...

I was planning on incorporating my future real estate company to protect myself and have the tax benefits.

I like it as a team approach, I think that provides the value add, is set up purely to the customer’s benefit. 

I'm a bit confused, because we can't benefit from inflation in usual life but it seems like here we get a lot of reward from buildings' prices go up because of rent growth.

The local economies are growing much stronger there in the right places and you can get large capital gains by benefitting from the path of progress.