In addition to my real estate portfolio, my partners and I are minority investors in a handful of potentially disruptive real estate tech startups - goal being to ultimately add value to our real estate portfolio.Curious if there are any other likeminded investors who would be interested in exchanging notes?

I will be free of the Banks and Hard Money etc. as long as I just do, one at a time going forward with 1031 Exchanges and moving into one to sell as my Residence, Tax-free.

This way, if either wanted to sell and exchange into another property using a 1031 exchange with their of your proceeds, you could do it on your own and not have to bear the tax consequences.

Because I heard that if you are tagged as an active investor/dealer, you have to pay ordinary income tax, you cant do a 1031 exchange, you can't have tax deductions and I think you also have to pay self employment tax or something and I don't want that to happen to me if I get started.

That could be you buying the home from the seller and the proceeds being used (at closing) to satisfy the debts or that could be negotiating a reduced payment to the debtors and "assuming" title in exchange for satisfying those debts.But . . . if you can't negotiate this with the seller, then the legal process of taking a home from someone is a foreclosure. 

There's a lot of talk of moving stocks and bonds to the Blockchain as security tokens, I don't see why REI trusts/funds (especially if they are publically traded) would be any different.

When the stock market tanked as states/cities enforced stay at home orders and forced businesses to close, the appetite for these loans dried up immediately over night on the secondary market.

Are you considering a 1031 exchange to defer the CG taxes?

I would not advise to put money that you'll need in the short term into stock market...high yield savings would be good as an option.Best of luck!

I'm a tax accountant in Australia with a strong background in property investment here, so pretty knowledgeable of the general gist of property investment and given my current investment strategy and goals I've ended up looking towards the US for my next, hopefully, few investments.I'm looking for buy and hold investments with good rental returns on them on low cost of entry.The basics of my situation are that I'm a US citizen who has never lived/worked in the US, have a stable job with reliable income in Australian dollars (the exchange rate is brutal these days!)