Many investors have been able to use 1031s to position themselves into passive investment real estate that pays throughout their lifetimes and uses the deferred tax to supplement that income.  

So many different things come to mind for a generic question like this, and so many valid answers as these threads will show:http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/311/topics/37277-good-walk-through-form-checklist?

@Jack Cannon If you talk to the right people you'll probably get a lot more food for thought and information than a generic grade on AirDNA.

If I was the podcast host, I would have used a different city other than Indianapolis or gone more generic such as midwest city that has rent that has not kept up with inflation.  

They are generic only.

Compass can recruit as heavily as it wants, but the top agents that produce most of the commissions are still going to go with whatever brokerage gives them the best deal, meaning Compass is going to need to retain the hefty commission model or its top producers that it lured will just jump ship again, most top agents I've seen have flipped brokerages half a dozen times or more, they keep a generic gmail account for all business so they don't have to deal with the hassle of switching email accounts when they flip brokers.

My bad on the link: https://www.biggerpockets.com/files/user/DrewS777/...I was shooting for a generic model that I could plug some criteria into, such as you called out regarding monthly cash flow, CCR, etc. 

Now, we use a generic cursive font to generate the letters so we can put the name of our employee buyer in that area on it.These go out on yellow stock and the entire letter including address, return name and address and personalized name of the recipient are all printed in batches using a very cost effective HP color laser printer.

On my HELOCs, I answered it as generically as possible, or put Other.

What I see though is that they will often supplement it with other forms of marketing like SEO, texting, mailing, RVMs etc so they are not reliant on just one source.