**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. 

It’s a balance between having immediate liquidity and avoiding unnecessary borrowing costs.

It's complicated and poses more risk.

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

Because she is competing with hundreds of others who are hooked to MLS and pay highest amount to get that property (they are not in hot market and in horrible condition, lots of unnecessary  risks involved).

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. 

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!

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

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