The Qualified Use requirement simply means that what you are selling and what you are buying or exchanging into must be held for either rental, investment or business use, and the Like-Kind requirement simply means that you are selling real estate so you must acquire real estate. 

Purchase price: $255,000 Cash invested: $80,000 Acquired this property with 5% down payment in 2012 as a house hack.

I would think you would need an engineer to plan out the flood zone remediation method in order to get building permits approved. 

I signed up for Cozy but never used it and now it seems to have been acquired by Apartments.com.

I've acquired a duplex, single family, quad and even built my dream home (with a custom AirBnB suite) thanks in part to the rental income I have.

If you are acquiring good cashflowing properties, your DTI will actually go down over time.

If it's not in the specified condition, either refuse to close or do a hold back of funds sufficient to remedy the situation.Careful with the electrified fence. 

We are renting the home out for $2230/mo.While I haven’t hit any home runs exactly, I’ve managed to acquire 3 good size single family homes, cash flowing an extra $1000/mo as well as letting the homes appreciate.

Just get an umbrella policy under one LLC and when you acquire 3 or 4 properties then I'd consider getting another.

Also would love to hear input from anyone else who uses financing for their LLC and what methods they use to acquire properties.