Make sure you do your research as well. 

I appreciate the reminder as well that if the gain is fairly low then it may make more sense to just pay the capital gains taxes now versus 1031 exchange. 

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There were only three reviews about them on Yelp and they were negative as well.

If this keeps reciprocating well with the community, I'll keep doing them.

In addition to the interest of the loan, you'd also be paying this as well. 

Dressers with a nice clean look that have deep drawers and smooth rollers are well over $1K and often close to $2K.

. - Despite 3 tenants in under 3 years, it has done very well for us and has only been "vacant" for 15 days in that period, and has great cash flow, ~$1000/mo due to ~50% equity in the property, and a low covid-era interest rate. - I have been saving ALL of my cashflow into its own account to accumulate to buy the next rental (totaling ~$24,000).

So, if you have 10 units and you are going to pay $1,500 a month and you are working on an active income job, too, this is an easy switch due to the labor mentally and physically (even if it is just phone calls) to get these rentals running as a well-oiled machine.  

Even if you go "vertical", that tends to require an architect as well.