If the tax is signifcant, you should consider doing a 1031 exchange.

A 1031 exchange is also possible, but albiet a little more costly to perform.

All without a 1031 exchange, because I wanted to hang onto some of the proceeds from the sale to purchase furniture for my new short term rental. 

Code § 10131A real estate broker within the meaning of this part is a person who, for a compensation or in expectation of a compensation, regardless of the form or time of payment, does or negotiates to do one or more of the following acts for another or others:… (b) Leases or rents or offers to lease or rent, or places for rent, or solicits listings of places for rent, or solicits for prospective tenants, or negotiates the sale, purchase, or exchanges of leases on real property, or on a business opportunity, or collects rents from real property, or improvements thereon, or from business opportunities.

IE: you send them leads in exchange for access to their flippers. 

I may consider doing a 1031 exchange of my Indy properties (3 total) in the future back to one property in NorCal, Nevada or Arizona.

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We've completed a HELOC loan, invested through a SDIRA, completed two 1031 exchanges, and we just now are doing our first cost segregation study on our portfolio to reduce our 2020 taxes to zero even though we made over six figures! 

My parents would roll all their proceeds from the 1031 exchange into 75% of the new property.

A 1031 exchange is great idea but is not something I want to do with this property.