It sounds like you understand that you can only 1031 the real estate and will have to pay tax on the portion allocated to the business FFE. 

I'm in Steubenville, Ohio a small town with limited resources.

@Matt McNabbYou’re in a great position to start building your real estate portfolio with clear goals and strong resources.

Is that available to scale up and if there are investors,  resources to manage that side if the business.I imagine a $60M/year Lending business will need systems in place and more than 1 extra person.

I’ve seen a lot of investors succeed by focusing on a market with strong rental demand, good price-to-rent ratios, and opportunities for appreciation—Detroit checks all those boxes.If you’re curious, feel free to reach out, happy to point you to some resources.

Lastly, agreed 100% with Stuart, you can't go into it using best case scenario assumptions and allocations.

I'm wondering what tools and resources you all use as rental owners and investors to get or keep your financial ducks in a row?

If you find someone that seems to know a lot of people needing your services, wouldn’t it make sense to focus more resources on them?

And yes, 1,000%, if doing self-managing you should not work for free and need to be allocating some rate for self. 3) That is actually accurate in this instance.

Use whatever resources you have at your disposal to help make the deal happen.