Hello Everyone,I’m scheduled to close on the sale of my single family rental the first week in May, and will have ~$250k in equity to roll-over into one or more replacement properties.I’d really like to hear other member’s perspectives on the pros and cons of purchasing small multifamily (2-4 units) with 30 year fixed financing vs larger multifamily (5-20 units) or a mixed use property with a commercial loan, which would likely be a 15 year loan term with monthly payments based on a 25 year amortization of the debt.This is my first 1031 Exchange, and I greatly appreciate your ideas, perspectives, or shared experiences. 

@Michelle Lutz do you do work with mixed use, MF/Commercial properties and if not, could you recommend someone?

Doing our first flip in Scottsdale Arizona and the neighborhood is a mix of the residents that are not quite senior citizen but near or at retirement age and families with teenage to older children.

From what I can tell as a "free" subscriber, it seems to have a mix of old (posted last year) and new properties.  

@Venesha Bowden You might try mixing up your target audience. 

I can't represent myself because I don't have a license and I don't really want to increase the closing costs by introducing an agent to the mix.

This jist of the rules are no mixing with disqualified parties, which essentially mean linear relatives: parents, grand parents, kids, kids in law, grand kids.

You'll allocate $2.4 million to $15 million by my calculations, with that range being the difference between buying 20 lots in the flatlands in the low to mid $100s up to the high range of buying 40 lots in the more expensive areas for $350K.Most of the lot buyers today are the big builders who intend to immediately build and resell, mixed in with a few end-users who are buying to build their own home. 

In the end, if one is lucky enough then the ideal portfolio in my mind should have a mix of these high profile city investments (SF, NYC, London etc) and a holding for cash flow generating assets in lesser known cities that get discussed here on BP.

@Skyler HarrisAnother professional engineer here in the mix, although admittedly I haven't practiced pure structural (picked up a few projects and clients over the last 2 years).