(even the optics are bad, if you consider it in terms of personal health and welfare of the couple against deferred taxes...)Best option is probably to start looking for a different horse. 

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. 

Wanting to sell a property and then deciding to 1031ing to avoid taxes puts the cart before the horse, since implicit in any 1031 is finding a suitable replacement property.

I guess we are an ADU... we are in a 1 acre field of a 2 acre property and I take care of all the animals (3 horses and 18 chickens mostly) while my wife works remotely and my toddler teaches me how to slow down and pay attention. 

Don't wanna put the cart before the horse but I'd like to get a layout of what my options may be.Thanks!

A profitable acquisition can look like an unprofitable one.For Want Of A NailBenjamin Franklin wrote in his Poor Richard's Almanack:For want of a nail the shoe was lost.For want of a shoe the horse was lost.For want of a horse the rider was lost.For want of a rider the message was lost.For want of a message the battle was lost.For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.The ArticleIf anyone is interested in the details, DM me.

And here we have it, a perfect example of what I am speaking of, hollow, empty, factless fear statements that to an uneducated professional sound intelligent, the stock market dropping makes RE market drop, only problem is it's completely incorrect, hyperbolic horse patties. 

., but I want to know what you are using, and why, and what advice you would have for a newb going through and setting up their systems before they buy (obviously some advice may be 'don't put the cart before the horse', I get it, but say you could start where I'm at, what do you wish you had implemented early on)?

@Kevin KongI think the trenches you're talking about are called French drains.But if this is your first foray into real estate investing...wow, that's a heavy-duty project that's putting the cart before the horse.

Inventory of this kind is virtually non existent in the local rental market, so it’s very hard to say what it’s value would be to someone wanting land who has horses.