He needs to take title to $300K of that property to satisfy his 1031. 

lol Im born and raised here and beginning my real estate journey  Id love to soak up some game from you!

1031 proceeds have to be arranged to be received by an accomodater and not by you personally, so the first property won't work.The other 2 properties sound like they have already changed title as well & been sold so those won't qualify for 1031 either.

A high quality, ethical Flat fee MLS would disrupt this industry and be a game changer to the industry. 

Properties get titled in the legal name of the acquiring individual or entity (not in the DBA)... so other than branding, DBAs are of little value in a real estate investment business.

That just shows how the owner(s) chose to take title. 

We take title to almost all of them, and then sell them.

You will need to get a game plan in place. 

With things like finding a wholesaler/investor friendly attorney/title company, finding all of the legal docs, creating a power team, LLC, etc thank you in advance and hope to here from someone soon!

The more readily available properties right now are commercial but that is a very different ball game and I wouldn't recommend that to someone like yourself just yet.