Especially since you don't live in SD anymore.Lastly, multi family units and apartment complexes simply offer greater economies of scale for maintenance and other expenses because it's more "doors" under one roof.

If you choose to work with an attorney for your 1031 whose experience is limited to a few 1031s a year (even though they may have a vast real estate background) you'll likely not get the economies of scale and a competitive price for your 1031. 

Inventory is just very high and the economy is volatile in an election year.  

Once you find a house that you believe would be a good rental, meaning desirable to your target market of customers (people within a couple of mile radius of the place), and all of the costs of monthly ownership that you can accurately project fall below the rental amounts that you project that you can get from your target customers, then you have a possible business asset that you can use to produce income, and have renters pay down the mortgage, while hopefully it goes up in value at least with the rest of the economy. 

In this supposed 'greatest economy ever' I've had a few tenants within the past week tell me they won't be renewing because they can't afford it.

This "economies of scale" approach could work for you, too.I would also consider the NW Valley, near where TSMC is building its multi-billion-dollar chip plant.

So a CRE crash will indirectly hit the economy hard, I still believe SFR is a quality, long-term scarcity hard asset worth investing in.

It's my personal opinion that meeting somewhere that isn't classically considered as a vacation destination would give you a stronger case in arguing for a business deduction (with online being the most straightforward).

One of which is that, in some jurisdictions, having the utilities in their name gives them a stronger argument should you find yourself in a squatter situation.

We are saturated just like all of Florida but our growing economy has LTR and MTR flourishing as well.