Rents also look low for San Diego or at least where I look at property so at first glance this deal looks pretty sweet. 

Seems like a sweet deal.

If it's a sweet deal I wouldn't care about the pool being there.

Was owned by a sweet old lady.

Those are sweet!

Might be able to hit that in places like Fall River or New Bedford.It is of course possible to find better than average deals any place, but you aren't going to find a place that will give you anything close to 2% within 25 miles of Boston unless you hit a pretty sweet off market deal.

I received a phone call from a landscaper friend/client about 1 hour after my original post and wanted to give me a heads up that he just heard from his client that they were in the process of putting together an offer to purchase the same property for their wine/tapas restaurant and that if I were still interested I better get on the horse!!! 

You can use the 1031 to sell a more expensive that may be out of the sweet spot for your investing and buy 2 or more replacements that fit your investing criteria. 

And pretty sweet living off royalties!

And from folks I knew that owned them  they liked to use the units through out the year as well you know come to wine country and have your own place to stay..