It's designed for real estate investors and it's easier to learn and use than Quickbooks. 

Carlsbad already does not allow short term rental unless the property is inside a pre-defined area within Carlsbad designated as the Coastal Zone. 

Under no circumstances are any comments I make designed to circumvent the law or any get around any type of rules.

In the alternative, you and your spouse could sign an agreement that the investmentproperty you are buying in your name only is designated separate property and not community property. 

After getting interested in real estates and realizing I cant work my way to happiness and freedom by just staying at my full time job ( Architecture Designer).

I could figure out when each investor sent out their mailer from the postage date, what type of mailer they sent, some were pretty poorly designed, and how many times they sent it.

Here in my urban market, it is the uniquely designed places that can demand and get higher prices.

Some geared for manufacturing, some geared for home building, some geared for interior design etc etc etc

Since I don't have all that information it's really not a good idea for you to take any answer I might give you because it might be right for me but wrong for you..1031 is usually not an option in syndication because it's designed for "like kind" exchange and while many people stretch the definition of "like" IRS will not take exchanging real estate with securities (in syndications you buy shares of the LLC).Only way to do that is if the sponsors somehow structure the holding in a way that the investors are TICs but I personally haven't seen one done this way. 

When I saw "Specialist" a service person designation I thought you might be in the service.