If you close with the seller and then in a second transaction close with the buyer, no license will be required.  

Just wanted to point out, if you're taking a loss or even close to break even on the sales no need to worry about bothering with a 1031 as there wouldn't be any taxes to defer anyway. 

One thing to watch for and to consider with your numbers are the taxes in Hartford, they can be very high!!

I agree with that, but I believe it's literally immediately for housing as in the first 1-12 weeks, and then falls it offs to the affordability angle and starts to close the gap on that.

Lots of cold prospecting/hard closes?

I'm not expecting a property to cash flow with 3.5-5% down and 6.5-7% interest, but I'd like to see it at least get close to breaking after moving out. 

And close to the top of that list (for me anyway) are Property Rights

Have you closed deals from calling?

I know a lot of people think they can watch YouTube videos, spend time with Real Estate professionals and network, and they can get started investing in Real Estate.

Even if he is upside down on it, he has to then not have the resources to cut a check at closing to get out from under it.We don't say it out loud very often, but a sub to transaction is a bad deal for a seller.