@Dave Foster Thanks for your reply!

Given your firsthand experience with the Alabama market, particularly with septic-specific considerations, your insights would undoubtedly provide a more accurate perspective on the operational and maintenance costs affecting this asset.Even with the available information, there are still substantial assumptions and speculative elements that must be integrated into the current and pro forma financial analyses to provide a meaningful valuation.

It’s awesome that you’re taking steps toward buying in an area you love and planning for the future—whether it’s as a second home or a long-term investment for your kids, this is a meaningful goal.

You’ll need an expert like @Dave Foster in rewards to doing a 1031 for your business.

Hire a company/person that is solely a QI like @Dave Foster they do it every day and will keep you legal and on track. 

@Dave Foster is the man when it comes to this stuff. 

@Dave Foster might be able to help plan with 1031@Jackson Hanssen is also a good 1031 resource

Find a valuable agent to list them, or work with @Dave Foster to 1031 properties, and you'll be less stressed. 

I'd have to do some research on the local market to know if this would meaningfully increase the value and the appeal as a rental in the long-term.

The shelters and foster networks are incredibly overrun, and I want to be responsible and not hand them off to random or possibly cruel strangers.