Seller financing will be "golden", turn-key is the awesome sauce, and with a target of APPRECIAITON, so appreciating market NOT based on hopeium but on MATHS.

Properties with no mortgage tend to be lawsuit targets. 

Are you targeting a certain area of STL?

As others have said, if you post the address you will get more targeted advice about condition, price, photos, strategy, etc.

Your target is the company that received the deposit, that signed the contract and that it was supposed to deliver the homes not the broker that makes a commission on the sale (when the homes gets delivered) on a success basis.Thank you and if you need anything within my reach I will continue to be here for you. 

As long as the total of the replacement properties meets your reinvestment target you'll still defer all tax. 

GONE, there a target. 

Are you targeting a certain number of bedooms/unit (this is how S8 generally calcs the rent for each unit)?

For the 10 year period spanning November 2014-2024, single-family prices in Austin nearly doubled, yielding an annualized appreciation rate of ~9% in that period.With inflation nearing its 2% target and signs of a slowing labor market, The Federal Reserve recently made its third cut to the federal funds rate since the start of the COVID pandemic.

As large investors entered the market to acquire single family houses, our margins were squeezed and we ultimately could not maintain our target investor returns as the market totally changed.