**Seller’s Financial Stability**: Verify the seller’s current financial standing, as any liens or judgments could complicate the deal.4.

This settlement makes things more complicated. 

My taxes are overly complicated and worst of all these houses really only break even for us every year.

It's complicated and poses more risk.

Sometimes these deals are easy and smooth and everyone agrees, nice, and friendly, and then sometimes when they look easy, they end up way more complicated. 

Buy right, fix right, sell/ rent right, everyone spends so much time making it more complicated.

You'd need to enlist one anyway if you go through with the 1031, so asking someone who really knows the ins and outs of a complicated transaction like this would be a good first step.Best of luck!

Reminder too that once you get more properties under your belt and begin having a bigger real estate investor portfolio your file begins to get more complicated and even a simply loan like DSCR sometimes may ask to prove other items.

However, the more complicated something is, the more likely it will go wrong.

Once you have that experience, and knowledge of the market, that's the time you can get into more complicated rehab projects.