Are they worth the monthly payments to gain access to Investor Names? 

By qualifying as a real estate professional (REPS), you’d absolutely be able to offset your wife’s W-2 income with passive losses from your multifamily activities.

Whatever your case may be, I will be successful with apartments as I've already started but I figured I'd reach out to gain a word or two and I am not pleased with the responses.

If the property is sold at a loss, can you unwind a 1031 to off set the gain on the sale of initial property?

While real estate is more passive once stabilized, acquisitions can require more hands-on management.The choice depends on your goals.

What might help you for the next attempt is to read (BP's book written by yours truly--The Hands Off Investor), and network (join a community where investors discuss deals, trade advice and observations--coming soon will be Passive Pockets, an offshoot of BiggerPockets which recently acquired the popular passive investing group Left Field Investors).

Thats not investing to me.But if you break even on a 600k purchase and end up with a 450k loan, you're going to get about 20k a year in depreciation to gain about 4k in tax benefits. 

It shows individual gains and ROI over a 30-year period, which helps identify which factors provide the highest returns and make informed investment decisions.In your case, even if you're not cash-flowing in the first year, since the negative cash flow is minimal, I’d still go for it.

You can also look at Schedule E, which connects to depreciation, though it won’t show the exact cost basis.Since depreciation affects the final cost basis, you might want to ask your CPA for a summary of your properties' bases to save time in the future.They should have a system where we can give you not just the basis but also a detailed gain (and estimated taxes) calculation within a day.

If we resided in a property for 20 months in the last 5 years, does the IRS consider a "partial" capital gains tax exemption?