2) Any advice on good title companies that can help us navigate this unique, creative deal for a house swap?

So not asking if this is a good or bad idea, because we aren’t planning on doing it  Rather - what are creative solutions to do the equivalent of transferring the property without doing a direct property purchase, assuming all parties are on board including the lender?  

It takes more work (and creative thinking) to make deals work in the current market.  

Or any other creative ways of making money (if I can't take a commission). 

Hello everyone,I'm Kody, a passionate real estate investor with a focus on rental properties and fix and flip projects.One of my core focuses is on creative finance.

However, the rents are slightly lower and could potentially wipe out your monthly cashflows with one major repair.As for higher appreciation market like West/East Coast, it's more expensive, but rents are higher due to a strong labor market, there will be a certain amount of demand for those markets, but the downside is that you will need to be creative by adding more values for the property.

I, along with a dozen others, teach subject to and creative finance.

I don't know if you're trying to do this all with the same lender, but if you're taking up a majority of the office buildings, SBA could be an option which would allow you potentially less down and you can get away with some seller carry (not all lenders allow and/or structure this but some do)...and/or you could potentially wrap in more collateral (like that other property) which some will do (Again not all SBA lenders are the same; some get way more creative than others). 

So I would need to come up with a creative way to structure this so that the equity payouts are as low as possible.Thanks in advance for any advice we can get!

I will add there are some creative and skilled RD investors.