The challenge with the LLC is that it is difficult to impossible to finance a single residential property owned by an LLC.  

I realize this is impossible to answer without knowing all the details, but I bought the house with FHA and at a price where I should be able to refinance into a 20% conventional once it's completed... but not if it isn't worth as much as I had originally thought.

If we collect $300 at the closing will it make 1031 impossible?

Immediate success is nearly impossible, you must plant the seeds and nurture them for them to grow.

Getting 1% a month in Santa Fe is pretty much impossible.

I love real estate business because it can give me control of my future, freedom, I don't need any money or credit to get started, I can resolve problems, create solutions and get paid very well for it...I know that real estate business is not easy but I know as well that it's not impossible..

Without a marketing budget getting leads will be next to impossible

That said, it is not impossible.

Nothing is impossible, but targeting owner occupied with direct-mail is against conventional wisdom.  

I am not saying it is impossible, or that nobody can do it, just that unfortunately *I* have not been able to.