Otherwise, you'll get ripped off or lose money via honest mistakes.Then you'll want to sell.

Looks like they're trying to sell lending services through their app.

Better sell everything and live in an underground bunker. 

Waivo has a different but similar product they sell directly for STR.

Just ask the owner what are you going to do with the money if you sell for cash??

A 1031 exchange is for selling an investment property then buying another investment property. 

Your experience reminds me to manage the portfolio well (i.e. sell losers) and to be patient. 

County has assessed for 200k but would be worth more due to the area they are building homes left and right on that road and they are selling 300k+ and up.

I am perfectly fine holding X amount in real estate.If I do see an opportunity another option is to lock it up and sell one of my existing if I think this property will perform or appreciate significantly more.

And IMHO, the prices are dropping big time (on avg. 10K/month...houses that were above 300K a year ago are not selling at 250K now) and the available rentals saturation is worse than I seen during summer season (with rents dropping from 1$-1.08/sqft to 0.8$/sqft and very little contacts and applications...just go in Zillow and look how many rentals are on the market now in Kyle, New Braunfels or Converse).