Likewise, when you contribute to a tax-deferred plan, you essentially get a match from the government that equals your tax bracket.  

Depending on your tax bracket, you could be paying as much as 37% in taxes on your X% interest from REIT as it is considered ordinary income. 3) While keeping nu 2 above in mind, you can always invest in REITs (or syndications) via tax-deferred or tax-free accounts (example, is IRA) which will either allow you to hopefully lower or remove in some cases your tax burden. 

I use Cozy for background checks and rent collection and use that to defer the cash now offers.

The 1031 exchange is used when you sell an investment property and purchase a like in kind investment property to defer the tax on the sale of the first investment.

The current plan is to hold, take a cash-out or hard money, address deferred maintenance and rent. 

The owner is only willing to allow me to buy 49 percent of the building but with deferred payments until he retires in 15 years.

@Todd PippinI will defer to the banking and lending experts who I am sure will chime in... but my understanding is that when applying for your refinance you need to disclose any debts. 

Given that he likely has a lot of capital gains here, it would be a good idea for him to participate in a Opportunity Zone Fund where he can take it gains and defer it into a Fund and erase the gains after 10 years.

Best opp for cash flow in the SCV would be to find a home 80’s or newer with plenty of deferred maintenance and then fix your and rent out.

These items would get the necessary items up to speed (so hopefully repair and maintenance deferred for years to start) When you’re assuming repair and maintenance are you basically assuming a % to build reserve for future capex?