A good 1031 officer can run through all of these questions with you and more!

Even when they run into a problem?

The individuals I've met along the way that are really good at real estate are analytical, level headed, and disciplined.

Tarek and Christina got sued and so they were in an out of it quickly.. they were just figure heads..

I am running around this morning, so I feel like the above is a bit disjointed.

I saw someone post in a group who I think is a schmuck brag about hitting a specific figure for their training and I just shook my head - like wow - this person is a great sales person and just steals the same lines from the business book about working hard and throwing out some slick slogans - but man oh man - when real estate gets hard people move to being a guru - just look at FB ads right now - many are not funds anymore but how to raise money, how to do X.

It may make more sense  in the long run just to put 20% down instead.

There aren't too many areas other than HCOLs that support current rates in terms of debt service, so I would run the numbers with a generous ~15% cushion. 

Also running a new owner incentive in January for 1st quarter '25.

Trump got significant tax reductions in his first term when essentially all demorats proposed tax increases.Of course, we don't want guess work, but we also don't want to ignore the direction that the tax policy will be headed.