Too many people try something for a short time and are looking for the magic bullet strategy but the true winners in real estate are those that do one thing a bunch of times over a long time periodHope that helps!

But, if a cost-seg study is done on the old property, you can manage Sec. 1245 recapture tax by doing a study on the new property to confirm it has as much or more Sec. 1245 property.You cannot swap a fully depreciated gas station for a raw piece of land and avoid recapture - you must replace all the 1245 and 1250 property.3) OZ - Sure you can defer your capital gains for a few years into an OZ fund, but the magic of OZ investments is the ability to achieve tax-exempt growth after a 10-year holding period.

Of course there is nothing magical about a "syndication", it can be as good or bad as an investment in any other real estate activity.

Otherwise, you can also invest in a scraping software that will pull the info you need auto-magically!

IMHO the key is having an agent on the buy side who understands the process and can make some magic happen for you. 

In all honesty if it's just one flip property I don't know if the $1,000 - $2,000 premium to have someone that markets themselves as a real estate CPA would yield you a good ROI in tax savings or some magical compliance maneuver.

With syndications many operators are using finance magic to juice returns, but that can result in full wipeout on the investors.

I do emphasize on showing that my 1800 property is not going to magically become modern. 

I have gone through the  curriculum twice in those years, but the real magic is just reaching out to everyone.

There is nothing magical about RE and nothing is secret.. the only thing I see that has really changed is how information is disseminated and transferred out to the public..