First, some historical perspective.If you have been investing in the past 10 years the current environment is VERY foreign to you.

I have been convinced to put my building up for sale and exchange into additional apartment buildings.The problem I have is justifying the price per door I'm having to pay.

Its almost like the growth from leveling up a corporate career: individual contributor to manager to manager of managers to director of a department to an executive leader with multiple departments with an ownership stake.All in all, not a bad place to be in, but a foreign world.Feel free to reach out.

I see you're in OC market and I would love to learn and exchange some values with you.

If there is credible intel that market prices are about to erode badly or market rental income, someone may have some motivation to sell based on what their holding period and strategy is.A buyer can experience strong motivation to buy for similar personal or economic reasons... say the buyer sells a property and really don't want to pay capital gains tax, they decide to reinvest entire funds in a similar capital asset but there are some time constraint issues associated with a 1031 exchange.

We exchanged phone numbers.

If memory serves correctly, he was negotiating sex in exchange for not collecting rent and operated poorly maintained units. 

You could avoid (delay) paying taxes on the Sale if you did a 1031 Exchange. 

But you can also either have an MD LLC or register your foreign (non-MD) LLC in MD with the State Department of Assessments and Taxation ("SDAT"). 

If someone walked up to me and asked me to buy this coin because he'd like to buy some coffee at starbuck and he need to exchange it.