I have been a natural gas broker for 23 years but come from a family of "investors" and I have also invested but I have very limited experience.

Start going to multiple real estate events until it becomes 2nd nature and enjoyable.

Dave, as always, your expertise in these matters is made apparent in the way you are able to explain things for neophytes like me to understand.As a follow-up question, for the remaining 150K that is being placed in a DST to avoid boot, is it the zero-coupon nature of the DST that is making the difference? 

We are interested in real estate (1) because we love old homes and especially love Philadelphia and want to aide in the revitalization of the city

Rather, by definition a like-kind real property exchange involves a trade of real properties within the United States that are the same in nature or character, even if they have different qualities.

Do you feel sight unseen offers are a natural progression to stay competitive and buy houses efficiently, or do you only offer on properties you've walked and reviewed in person?

Diversify,GrantIt seems like once a person gets started they naturally branch out.

Many MFHs are seller financed and the sales never get recorded naturally depressing the market.

It's arguably the ideal strategy for the area since we don't have much of "natural appreciation."

As mentioned, we've determined pretty well that managing the roof runoff in to drain pipe that leads the water to this side creek will prevent the major loss of future earth via erosion, but we still have the angular nature of these crevices that will continue to erode naturally if not managed, so I'm more dealing with how to go about backfilling it all without losing too much of the backfill.