Chad Littell from CoStar notes that while institutional investors adjusted their strategies early in response to rate hikes, individual investors have only recently begun scaling back.July Sales ReportAccording to CoStar’s July Commercial Repeat-Sale Indices (CCRSI), the equal-weighted U.S. composite index, tracking smaller market sales, showed only a 0.2% price increase from June, with prices down 0.7% year-over-year, marking the first annual decline since 2012.

I will need to explore the 1031 route and weight it against my opinion on the market. 

(I don't give much weight to online reviews especially when most of the reviewers each have a history of only a couple of reviews.)The other guy is the estimator for a 25-year roofing company; I think they're more credible but you're probably right about them being more picky about everything.

Also might be good to talk with your agent and get an idea of what an extra storage space is valued at in your area (I've seen sheds be valued at several thousand before) so that might defray some of your building costs.

Perhaps I can shed some light on what it takes to get into real estate investing.

Many I work with require a minimum 8 x 8 bordered area on the drawing just for their stamps and have rules on font type, size, drawing scale, information on the title blocks, line types, line weights, etc.

While the first two are great for inspiration, the last one offers much more image control based on what is called ControlNets, which allows control of the composition and weights of an image.

For example:  Reviews are weighted the most by the algorithm. 

Since IB has gotten so many positive remarks here, I may reconsider it, since it is weighted very high by the algorithm. 

Or a SFH that has a detached garage or work shed and convert it (running electrical and sewage might be expensive so do your due diligence).