If you sell two properties at, say, $700K and $300K respectively, then you can either combine those into a single exchange and buy at least $1M of replacement properties OR you can split them and have one exchange trade for at least $700K and another for at least $300K

I say this as no disrespect to the people in the trades - their jobs can be tough... only as a note to the risks of doing such work. 

I have $30k of stock options losses this year (multiple bad trades in a row lmao after making 35k last year off options and sadly paying a lot of tax that cant be carried forward to this years losses).

I had a very irresponsible business partner who lost his portion of the building proceeds on day trading.

Most of the small multis trade for way above what would make sense with current interest rates.

Who’s going to trade you own gun and one bullet for a pound of gold?

It's a trade-off, so consider your financial objectives and priorities.4.

It seems like you would want your property be close to amenities since it seems like you would trade the comfort of having your own space to being in a better area for a cheaper price but I could be wrong.

The low risk requirement eliminated lots of investment types like trading crypto, venture capital, ultra high leverage real estate deals - except for maybe a very small percentage of my investable assets.Since I’ve already accomplished tax minimization by managing to hold the majority of my assets in a retirement plan and paid the taxes to turn that plan into a Roth, number 4 is not a concern.I do invest for current income as second place to wealth preservation, and increase wealth as third place.

Traders trade.