The old adage, "know your product" applies to everything that sales people deal with in commerce, shoes, suits, cars, cold medicine, tractors, houses, trailers, horses, everything!

In a race to get it finished and occupied we added 29K to credit cards as we crossed the finish line.

Now if a guy is racing around his Ferrari like it's a Formula One car, certainly the Ferrari will deliver, but you do have a lot of expense with driving a car that way. 

To use a metaphor, pretend you actually have a horse, explain what you want the horse to do and how it will do it. 

(Unless of course, you are in a one horse town and have no choice!)

I get it.. keep in mind Lenders just want money and commissions .. no matter who the borrower is vis a vi race religion creed etc.

He has stated he wants to get rid of Trump's 2017 tax law which will eliminate the bonus cost segregation studies so the horse may have already left the barn.

In Oregon, (especially C.O) the fix and flip and single family buy/hold market is the rat race of real estate investing.

With the profits, we are looking to sell it to pay off debt, get us out of the rat race, and pick up another rental property (we would have the next property nearly paid off).My question is:  Can I use part of the profits to pay off consumer debt (credit cards and student loan) and 1031 exchange the rest into my next property?  

For example, if the tenant is a racial minority and they're not told why they were denied (even if it was for something like a past eviction), wouldn't they have more room to claim discrimination because they believe the denial was due to their race/color rather than if you just told them up front that they were being denied for that past eviction?