If you are a long term hold and do 1031's having him as a partner means he can't use the stepped up basis when you die thus he would carry the burden of deferred taxes vs you removing it with death.

I did consider the option of shaving some dollars off the purchase price but I realize that the rental income is more important to cover the mortgage.The rental unit upstairs is currently occupied.

I came home and switched my treats from being fresh flowers from the super market and reasonably expensive store bought chocolates to being freshly roasted coffee beans from a local coffee shop down the street and homemade ice cream from a local award winning ice cream shop up the street or freshly baked croissant from the French bakery around the corner.

(Ice cream, pizza, coffee, etc.)We use Pricelabs for our STR's in Branson and love it. 

The #’s have gotten tighter on a larger percentage of the deals but we’re still making it happen.Our purchase price for these is usually between $60k and $220k.  

All 3/2's?  Have

You can shop around different title companies, but that shouldn't shave off more than 1k-2k. 

They could live in one unit and use the income from the other unit(s). Have

My primary focus is in search of FREE Real Estate groups (COREE charges and I also work during their exact meeting times) and have already joined “The CREAM” Facebook Group.

Yellow/cream is very dated.