Quote from @Glenn Barlow: I have a willing seller who is willing to 'chip in' on a MF deal, basics are:Purchase: $2.5 MLender committed at $2M (80%)My cash in $250k + costs to closeSeller willing to contribute $250k on a secured positionLender does not want to have a second behind them. 

Chipping away at their purchasing power might prevent them from buying in the near future.

So according to the US Government, that's where children will Often Desire to eat lead paint chips, and based on that logic the Lead Laws of Detroit make sense.And based on that same logic, if that exact same house was in Brighton, and the exact same child moved into it, he/she would not have the "Desire to Eat Lead Paint Chips".

@Albert H Shin Looks like press board which is just sawdust and wood chips glued into a cheap "board".

It sounds like you have a plan and you are successfully chipping away at it!

Matt Bill Gulley's advice above is great, try to spend this next year until your 18 slowly chipping at those suggestions to be prepared for getting involved once you legally can.Also maybe start your "plan" a few months before you turn 18.

I took my wife because just up the hwy was Waco TX, the home of my favorite HGTV family Chip and Joanna Gaines. 

This seems reasonable, although I could be wrong, that by doing so, the lender is always in a safer position if the buyer put more chips in the game. 

The trade off to do a 1031 is that you leave your chips in the game if you want the IRS to leave it's tax in the game.  

Goals in this movement: Apply rental income to continue to chip away at my principal balance.