According to the Comptroller of the Currency: "A check is a negotiable instrument—the payee, the person to whom the check is written, may negotiate it through the banking system at any time" and check writers seeking redress must restrict themselves to pursuing the payee.[16]Nonetheless, if "the customer has given notice to the bank of the postdating describing the check with reasonable certainty" the Uniform Commercial Code requires that the notice to be honored.[17] In practice, whether the check writer has any redress against the financial institution where the payee deposited the check may depend on whether it can be shown that the check was accepted over the counter without examination

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When I plugged my income in the calculator to figure out subsidies, I won't have to pay much for my insurance on the exchanges.

About 3 years ago they were vilified and despised, ask anyone who owned Inland Western (now RPAI) how fun the transition from private REIT to exchange listed REIT was for them. 

I bring the seller and buyer together to exchange the monies and receive contracts, etc?

It's time to find the community of investors to exchange notes with.

Here are a couple examples:1)  Looking for a Mentor - You could provide free labor or your time to an experience investor in exchange for learning the ropes. 2)  Looking for Deals - You could ensure you have all your ducks in a row and can close quickly.  

What we see there are being "hot" is the lower inventory and the increasing property prices.We are seeing rent-to-value ratios dropping slightly making the invest returns lower, but it is still a very good market economically and in terms of investment-grade properties.As a side, we've found that a number of our 1031 Exchange clients end up buying there for some reason.What is clear is that it's a Seller's market in San Antonio today.

I want for myself varies with a lot of factors, such as whether I'm investing from a 1031 exchange, how close the property is to me or other properties I own, whether there is a lot (or very little) deferred maintenance, quality of the area/tenants, etc.I may say in the back of my head, well this cap rate is actually pretty good in this market, but it's a secondary consideration.

@Mike Kalob, Coming in with the perspective of one who did my first exchange for myself in 1999 as well as a provider of them for clients over the last 19 years.