This will help narrow your Buy box and make your efforts more fruitful.  

The most expensive exchanges are typically "one offs" done by an an attorney with no economy of scale which is a direct result of little direct experience.However I'd also counsel that you not simply look for the cheapest "fill in the boxes" internet intermediary either.  

He has helped me with some creative financing and outside of the box strategies in the past.

Now you are looking to see if deals are within your buy box which is analyzing deals. 3.

well once pandora's box has been opened like this it becomes out of investors control.

As in the common rent for properties of the same size that you can put a box around on a map. 

I just don't see where the properties in my buy box allow for that option. 

I think he had some self promotion in the post and mods removed it @Paul Ewing

@Aaron Zimmerman my old Chicago buy box (Albany Park, Rogers Park, Irving Park, Lincoln Square, Ravenswood Manor) has moved pretty far away from my preferred fundamentals.

There are many out-of-the-box solutions available for many industries.