You can pick someone who's (A) attentive to your needs, (B) very knowledgeable about the area, (C) not just trying to sell you any house.Technology to enable the teamI use Google Sheets to track all of the properties in play with my real estate agent.

This enables you to defer the payment of your ordinary income, capital gain, depreciation recapture and/or Medicare Surcharge (“Obamacare”) income tax liabilities.There are important timelines and rules you must follow in order to successfully complete a 1031 Exchange.  

This enables you to vet the information provided by the Vendor with the Tenants and/or Service Providers (i.e. leased water heaters, HVAC, Laundry,  landscaping services, etc) to see if the views of the relationship terms align or not.

Here are the stats:Current payment and rate: $1,807.23 w/4.75% rate 30 years at 4.25%: Savings of $230 monthly with MI 15 years at 3.5%: $1,868.83 (w/MI)15 years at 3.625%: $1,821.84 (w/MI financed)We can comfortably pay our current mortgage amount as well as the 15 year options, though part of our reason for refinancing is to enable us to eventually move and rent out this property (better cash flow), however now I'm considering is there more benefit in doing a 15 year and building more equity that can later be used to do a cash out refi or HELOC?

You could get a Solo 401k plan that enables to invest in both RE and the stock market.

A webinar would enable showing things that a podcast might not be able to do

approximately, how much of each down/closing costs(per deal) were you able to recover, percentage-wise, of that money on your cash out refi to enable you to reinvest in another hold?

Not a lawyer so no legal advice, just a question:  Wouldn't filing for bankruptcy protection enable you to keep your primary residence and also possibly have the courts help you to go back on monthly payments for your tax debt? 

This will enable you to accomplish more in a shorter period of time than if you rely on just yourself.

At some point you should have achieved those BIGGERpockets that will now enable you to use your own cash to invest.The housing market is doing well now.