That deal wouldn't work cashflow-wise unless you paid cash.

The results for the duplex were as good as I had hoped numbers wise.

A wise property management colleague of mine once said "Cozy all the way until 20 properties, then hop to Buildium."

I'd really ask an atty instead of this blog on what that means time/money wise.

You are very wise for asking this question. 

If you find a good opportunity, then go for it, at the end of the day, you want to grow wealth wise.

My girlfriend and I are currently looking to purchase a 3 to 4 unit under $300k and am wondering what kind of road blocks we’ll be heading into finance-wise.

Accounting wise, you'll have two properties, the original property, which you'll continue to depreciate as before, with it's original cost basis, and the boot, the difference between the original basis, and the newly acquired property with it's own depreciation, and starts on date of the 1031 acquisition. 

Hey Jon, wise move to reach out on this one.

If you want to mimic an appraiser's approach (wise move since their are the ones determining value) you can search up to 1 mile away and up to 6 months before to be easily useful in comparing to your subject property.If you can't find a comparable sale to your subject property then the next best alternative is to take similar properties and adjust them to match the subject property (for example, if your comparables are all 3 bed 2 bath homes and your subject property is a 4 bed 2 bath, you might ADD something like $4,500-8,000 to the sale price of the comparable properties to indicate the likely value of your property.