Or, look at other real estate business models such as FixNFlip.Whatever your approach, you will need to look at a tremendous amount of deals, kick more than your fare share of tires, and make lots and lots of offers that make sense for YOU.

I pre-screen by having the interested party message me about the property (weeds out the first layer of tire-kickers), and I send them my screening criteria and pre-screening google form similar to Brandon's "free application".  

I was tired of others getting deals and I understood everything they did and figured I could do it myself.

I will admit to being just as confused as before, but I then again am also very tired.

From what I gather the previous owner stopped getting rental permits and last got a vacant lot/house in 2015....and stopped doing anything from 2015 on (I suppose he too was tired of dealing with L&I. 

Can you take 8 hours a day to work on it, or will you do 2 hours here....an hour there....after you're already tired from your day job and have to miss your kids' school program?

Some people start off with fixer-uppers that cash flow and then stick with them forever while others eventually get tired and graduate to properties that don't cash flow but do better with appreciation.

For what it's worth, I've been kicking tires on AC for awhile and I'm not ready to pull the trigger yet although I did buy a property in Brigantine.

After a while, I got tired of driving 2 hours whenever something needed to be done, so I ended up hiring a property management company out there.

Problem with 1031 is you only have a 6 month time frame, too rushed for me.Like you, I was tired of SFR's and looked into apartment buildings, and small commercial properties.