Establish what type of commercial real estate interests you most—retail, office, industrial, or multifamily—and develop a plan around that.

Tracking hours would be kind of a pain as we tend to do a lot of partial-hour type of work like a quick phone convo or texting back and forth with a buyer client, researching properties, talking to listing agents and lenders, scheduling showings, previewing properties, travel time, etc.

Deviations from the Private Letter Rulings will significantly increase your risk of structuring this type of advanced 1031 exchange.You should discuss this more advanced 1031 Exchange structure in greater detail with your legal, tax and financial advisors to determine your comfort level with this complicated 1031 Exchange structure and the inherent risks involved.

What type of properties are you looking to acquire, SF, 2-4 MF, or 5+ MF?

Do you have a preferred type of property and price range you're looking for in general (knowing the costs can be different based on they market)?

It would be hard to cash flow on a 600k house that has 3600 in rent regardless of the broader economic situation going on in society. i find that when someone says BRRR doesn't work anymore they end up meaning it doesn't work well for the specific types of real estate that they want to buy.

What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

Typically, the adjustments I see on appraisals for basements are more flat rate adjustments. 10k is usually the number I've seen.What stinks is that there are a couple of model types that have below grade space where the builder, I'm sure, was trying to lower the taxes by having it below grade so the county wouldn't count that space in the assessment.

What type of properties are you looking to acquire, SF, 2-4 MF, or 5+ MF?

Post Dodd Frank sellers have continued the same bad practice of selling houses to occupants with financing at selling prices that are way high, can't be justified via any type of 3rd party valuation (appraisal, zestimate, tax value, even recent sales in the same area).