Looking to maximize appreciation & tax benefits, so not necessarily looking for high cash flow to replace a salary.Good advice on not focusing on the number of properties.  

You have things like gutters and downspouts to worry about replacing. 

., identifying a replacement property within 45 days and closing within 180 days).

It may not be so easy to just replace the company you have.

Really nothing can replace real life connections! 

Do a 1031 exchange and buy two replacement properties - one for $250K cash and one for $250K using the remaining $50K of proceeds as your down payment.Once this is done your 1031 is complete. 

And people think Ai is going to replace accountants.one can argue that apartments.com is just a processing the payment and not actually holding the funds to transfer out.If apartments.com all of a sudden reverses the payment for insufficient funds?

Or replace a bad tenant say who is paying? 

Sewer line backup, ordinance & law, and replacement cost coverage are coverages I include. 

This is exactly why I'm asking the question, because it may be the case that some of these investors would be better off either purely treating this as a flip or just moving on from this deal if they can't flip it and get their cash back within a few months.