Sell my properties and get out of Celeveland 3.

The benefits to the seller including dumping a money pit that no one can get financing on, dumping a property that has a nasty lien or judgment against it, selling for more than the property is worth, dumping a property that is contested in probate, things like that.

If you’re selling and you’re going to buy another rental no matter what, if you probably do a 1031 unless you have almost no capital gain or depreciation capture.

Donnie I'm selling that place.

Is it possible to sell or refinance one unit to pay the other off completely. 

It's hard to harvest equity on these plays, unless you commit, long-term, towards very light leverage, as the only practical ways to benefit from the equity in your portfolio, if you plan to never sell it, only exchange it, for a lifetime, are to spend the cash flow, or cash out refi.

I've got a property to sell that's sub 200k and rents for $1500. 

Determined to avoid such mistakes in the future, I earned my real estate license to better understand the buying and selling process.

My thought is that the people that ARE using it for lead gen/outreach, automation etc. will keep the methods to themselves until the advantage of early adoption is done and that business segment is saturated, then they will sell courses to everybody else..

I do know coaching/mentoring/selling programs can be good money, especially if a person knows how to market themselves or has a bit of prior exposure.