Trying to do a 1031 correctly in turbo tax sounds like trying to cook a gourmet meal using the ingredients from a lunch able. 

Who knows what other ingredients or procedures are being hidden from the public.

Not sure what "fight club" is, but agree with all above.Key ingredients are to always leave a personal message with any colleague request, do not spam or solicit with that system, and it is always helpful when you have completed your profile and uploaded a photo so the receiving member can read about you first along with your message.

Now I've got the "ingredients" how do I utilize this information to make my ingredients into some serious "dough."

Although it's possible to be a successful B&H investor with just those three ingredients, I'm finding I can get much farther much faster with good relationships with other investors.Therefore, like @Joshua Jensen mentioned, the networking aspect (for those who use it) makes the $150 annual dues more than worth it.Sure, you can meet local investors here on BP, but there's nothing like meeting in person and many of the local investors are not on BP (or at least are not actively making posts here).It sounds like the advice you received was wrt the TREIA general meeting.  

Of course not -- you could have purchased the raw ingredients yourself and made your own hamburger at the wholesale price, thus saving yourself that additional profit paid to the restaurant.

The final ingredient is to take action and hang in there.Good luck!

Coming from a background in finance, I know that I will, one way or another, be able to find either a single partner, or group of investors who aren't afraid to pull the trigger, and who are interested in actually developing land, not destroying it, and creating beautiful properties to be sold along with beautiful margins.I'm also curious to know if any of you have tackled projects similar to this (I know I haven't given out the secret ingredient), just speaking of land acquisition / development / selling properties, repeat.Thoughts?

The key ingredient will be your property management company.

@Quinten Sepe  The key missing ingredient is time.