These trees grow fast and seem to be pretty whimpy in strong wind:  shortly before buying the house the tree lost a limb set and in our recent north texas storms we lost another (fell into the street blocking nearly the full road). 

I also have a rental property in downstate IL and she owns a rental condo in Chicago, but we both kinda fell into those being rentals and they were not bought with investment / income in mind.Thanks!

I used them last year when my local lender fell through last minute.  

I had one flip deal fall through (repairs were too much), but it mainly fell through because the homeowner received a lot of letters and he called multiple people and bid the asking price up essentially.

Yeah, I wasn't looking for a house... it just fell in my lap.We decided to jump on it and the rent from our current place would cover the note.This is As-Is, no contingencies... just needed to get money from the bank.  

He went in on a deal with his brother to fix & flip this property, but for whatever reason, plans fell through.

To un-wind 40 and hopefully it'll be more like 50 or 60 homes, in one fell swoop probably won't happen in a way that would allow me to 1031 them all.To be honest though, I would have no problem paying the taxes.My bigger concern would be that I don't know commercial real estate and to let it all ride on one big investment would be a little scary - even for someone as aggressive as myself. :-)I just don't think I could risk all the effort we've put in to building this portfolio on one deal. 

Couple of our offers fell apart because HOA did not let us to sell to investors and veterans, They suck :-).

Online it looks like a month prior the house was pending buy it fell through?

I can't tell you how many posts I have read where a furnace went out or a tree fell on the house, etc.