If you miss something and are sued, the other side may be able to have the LLC thrown out and attack your personal assets.Then there’s the considerable workload and expense of filing taxes for each LLC, a multi-step process.

That is my first plan of attack; purchase here in San Diego. 

The blood is definitely in your eyes, in attack mode and for all good reason.

Having a home you both live in attacking the mortgage payment while receiving income on the others can help pay down all of the mortgages collectively a lot faster. 

But that activity right before the start of a 1031 has been consistently attacked by the IRS for years. 

I am sure I will get attacked for this advise but let's be real.

You mentioned your strategy is fix n flip which is great that you are picking a strategy and attacking it. 

Now, personally, I think I'd have a heart attack if nobody in the county had done this before. 

I have begun to market some of my talents, so I can aggressively attack the debt.

Step 3 Look at other criteria such as migration trends, transportation infrastructure improvements, look at outlying areas of boom towns, areas that attack business startups and jobs, and areas that are transitioning from one economic class to a higher class (gentrification).