Anyone can tell you anything but when your transaction gets reviewed by the IRS they might disallow the whole thing if they do not agree with your steps and structure of compliance for 1031 purposes. 

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Important to get your PMs buy in while still in your search so the PM can advise you on the actual investment and property before you get out of attorney review. 

Have an attorney review it with you so you understand every paragraph.

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The lesson in all of this - "the customer is always right, unless it is productive for them to be wrong".Obviously tenants aren't customers, and they don't leave reviews that can kill your future business.

Other BP forum posts have had mixed reviews on RE express. 

A little nervous about desperation and needing work but they had an overall 4.9 star review on Google. 

In the Everett area market, this is one of the cheapest deals to get into a home, however when I ran the numbers for a house hack, they look awful. My goal would be to house hack and live in the property master bedroo...