To some degree it helps consolidate some information that you may have to find in county records otherwise, but the comps aren't really any more helpful than Zillow's or Trulia's.

Multiple Assets and Fractional InterestsThe 1031 Exchange allows you to easily reposition, diversify or consolidate your investment real estate portfolios. 

The question is, we would like to start an LLC for our properties, but we don't know if we could consolidate the other properties into the LLC when we form it without too much additional costs.Is it possible?  

Has anyone had experience in consolidating multiple property loans into a single loan? 

Silliest one tho is someone saying their credit was bad and they were consolidating because they maxed their credit cards out on their wedding...

@James Klafehn The post office around us is trying to get complexes to consolidate to central mail centers, and have been paying for and installing these for complexes, may be worth a call. 

Approximately 90 miles of rail branch has been consolidated into one high-&peed 20-mile corridor

Yes, there are tactics of stock swaps, consolidations, liquidations, puts and calls that leverage a better deal, but stocks are generally sold at their "buy price" they are not negotiated down by your broker.

I am finally ready to be more active in REI.So here is my situation.The house needs 10k to 20k in rehab for various things over the next year or so.I had 10k in credit card debt that I payed off last week.I just did a cash out refi and got 42k to consolidate those debts and hopefully a down payment for my next rental.

I consolidated my loans and set them up on Income Based Repayment, and rather than accepting my payment, they make one up.