The houses were in much better shape than other rental homes for sale that I looked at in the area.

You can mitigate by splitting sales over two years (which is what I did, end of 2021 and beginning of 2022, both great times to sell btw ;) Then I paid off all my debt on my keeper properties, thus maximizing rental income with fewer and better quality properties remaining in my portfolio.

If you need the capital from a rental for a primary home purchase and you wanted to side step cap gains, then the approach would be to refinance the rental not sell it. 

If you sell now, that is correct; but if you turn it into a rental and haven't lived in it for more than 2-3 of the last 5 years, you pay capital gains on all of the profit (assuming you are in the US, Canada works differently).

To be honest, I had a rough go of it as well when I was buying rental properties.

Hello, I'm building an ADU at my primary residence that will be used as a rental.

I am looking to purchase land and potentially rental property using a self directed IRA.

Killeen is still a great market for rentals and flips, but not the same gold mine it was 10 years ago.

Once an individual qualifies for housing assistance, they have to find their own rental that will accept the voucher.

I have a rental property in an LLC own by both myself (49%) and my partner (51%), I will like to get HELCO or CELCO.