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The trade-off that I don’t accept is that service would suffer.

Both can align with your goals—just weigh the cash flow vs. upfront cost trade-off!

But merely being licensed does not give you any advantage whatsoever. 

So it looks like you trade a second lien.

@Chris Blackburn, while I can't speak to this specifically, there are a few red flags I see in your post.1: A Realtor has to be a member of the national association of realtors, an industry trade group primarily focused on your typical home buyer.  

Using a GC you will have less headaches as you'll have one point of contact and they will coordinate schedules between the various trades. 

Those duplex's my clients bought are now trading high 400s low 5s .On the flip side my current project in Canby Oregon I am alble to negotiate 1 to 1.2% for the buyers Brokers these are 700 to 1 mil each..

But that's me.To answer your question, I'm not in the business of recycling dirty money but I think it's pretty well known and established the the proceeds for criminality and the drug trade is invested in all sort of business, especially real estate.

The 1031 exchange is designed to give you a loophole: You are not considered to be selling and buying, you are simply trading your property for a different one or ones.