You need an experienced short sale agent, which may be hard to find for the extra work on such a small price/commission.  

I'd be inclined to tell your neighbor to buy extra units for your multi & you'll split the take 50/50 & he installs & maintains the appliances. 

Use the earnings and do it again until you can purchase a complex big enough that the income exceeds your jobs income? 

Hiring a full-service accountant to help you with your real estate earnings is not so easy.

It may sound nice to pay a 5% management fee but the extra fees can add up to be more than the other company that charges 10% with no add-on fees.

We appreciate the opportunity to earn your business.

Trying to reverse engineer making an extra $30,000 by the end of this year.What formula are you all using?

@Mark Ashton Publication 523 - Eligibility Step 4—Look-Back Determine whether you meet the look-back requirement.If you didn't sell another home during the 2-year period before the date of sale (or, if you did sell another home during this period, but didn't take an exclusion of the gain earned from it), you meet the look-back requirement.

Aside from multiple ongoing code violations, neighbor complaints and damages, they moved in extra people/pets, tried to scam the utilities, stopped paying rent and ultimately had to be evicted. 

(It's not always as easy as "just create another LLC", sometimes due to time/logistical limitations and sometimes due to the extra ongoing expense & complexity of another entity.)These days, I actually think I prefer LLC names as generic and boring as possible, so they don't stand out and aren't easy to Google - a kind of pseudo-anonymity.