If you're tax bill is $6-8k (minus the 1031 fees), surely you can make that up by taking multiple swings over a longer period of time.OR pursue some sort of owner occupied strategy with that cash if you can swing a live in flip or house hack.

Unless you want to start selling real estate for a career, there is no need for it.

The investors with the most units and most experience could just as likely be in flip flops and a Jimmy Buffett shirt as jeans and a polo.

I will also say that the majority of our clients focus syndications (even if it's through a fix and flip fund) given that it is just much more scalable than doing one-off raises. 

I flipped and did some buy and hold when I lived in Florida.   

I grew up in the real estate industry watching my father raise money with a PPM for large multifamily value add projects and a developments.

I have bought and sold several properties across Chicago and Barrington area over the past seven years, and was a real estate agent for 2 years in my early twenties.

@Avani PatelFor my flipping business, I prefer to use fewer software programs to streamline things.

I am working with them now to buy my next flip. 

I run a full time flipping business, right now i am able to do 2 homes at a time.