Also, networking with RE agents will definitely help to identify buyer's needs/wants.

Merrill said the free sessions will introduce the flipping process, how to identify flippable property and how to secure financing."

John C I identify with you 100%.

The other side it would be challenging to sell all 3 within the 1031 time frames and identify replacement options.

Identify the commission structure in advance and on paper.Thanks,Matt

If not at least I identified a market needing a good IT programmer and REI fortune teller, aka: guru. :)

To this end, I’ve developed a formula to identify assets that have value as both long-term equity plays, and CF today.

Get a mortgage broker involved to give in depth workings and stress the return of money before the return on money.You could do the same thing one on one, introduce an attorney who will work with you.As a Realtor you can say that you can see the possibilities, identify great deals, but you can't really address the internal workings, underwriting aspects, risk, so get a center of influence who can and do so with authority.

So, my point with all this is;Financial leverage is good during periods of growth, growing a business, in RE you can make a return on the lender's funds while using your money to expand holdings.You need to identify your cost of money and opportunity costs, if your money is more valuable than the cost of borrowing, borrow all you can.Equity is an idle asset in the walls of RE, it only grows at the rate of inflation unless other capital improvements are made, but while that increases the value the return may not increase and if it does, it will at some point decrease over time economically.

You can identify the median price for say a 3BR 1BA in an area, and then whenever a 3/1 or 3/2 pops up listed below that median, then you can pass that along for consideration; or you just look at it more closely to see what ARV would be.