A bird in the hand is worth more than ...........Home runs feel good , grand slams even better .But base hits all day long can win the game 

Make money....Simple right? 

I'm pretty hands on. 

We are just kind looking for some simple guidance as what to do to get us started on this.Thank you all for any information that you can give, it will be a great help!

Just go to the MLS website and take down the addresses of all the properties you're interested in, create a route on google maps, hand write a short note for each, and go stick it on their door.

Rather, I'd want a simple seller financed note. 

It is pretty simple, I think you are overthinking this plan. 

To get seller financing, so I need an agent, a bank, or just a simple contract?

So if you take title to the property in the first exchange you can't later exchange the second property into it.However, if you can delay the purchase of the property so that it can fall after both sales it is a relatively simple process to combine the two 1031 exchanges. 

As new apartments open across the city in record numbers, vacancy rates have grown, rents have stopped rising and landlords are offering an increasing number of freebies to get tenants in the door.For years, the Seattle rental market was so heated that renters would constantly monitor online listings and quickly show up to available apartments with checkbooks and references in hand.