Right now I’m just trying to plant a bunch of seeds hoping one of them grows into a tree.

spend your seed money". 

The lower mortgage helps your NOI and you can use the extra NOI to slowly seed the college fund while still getting to defer the $18K of tax.Or you could complete the 1031 and then refinance when your daughter is ready for school. 

Grow it continuously.2 - Your seed money. 

There's also pre-emergent that stops seeds from sprouting.

USAA participate in consumer fraud along with their business partner seedcapital.com known as Seed Consulting LLC base in Nevada.seedcapital.com is dishonest of raising capital for their clients through their business partner USAA and many other banks who participate in consumer fraud such as BBVA Compass, Citi Bank, Bank Of America, Barclay, Chase and Capital One by filling out false information online consumer credit application and using false Business Projected Income as Stated Income in the consumer house hold annual income to allow for the client to get a high credit limits for start ups .

Were you essentially fixing the house and making the farm shovel/seed ready?

I loved your advice about having your secure job provide the seed money for your investments.

All the bad seeds typically drop out right there.

That property now cash flows me $2000/month, and I have $130k equity in the property to use any time I need seed money for another deal.