This is not a perfect science of course and you'd still want to go into detailed analysis at a later time.

If I found the perfect deal I could make this work, but based on the number of units sold in the area I desire, it may take a year or two for that to happen, and time is not something I want to waste.The properties that I would like to live in AND have healthy cash flows seem to be in the 700,000 to 900,000 range.

This can aid your 1031 because you can negotiate your sale contract with them with a closing that could be delayed until you find your perfect replacement property for the 1031.  

That would work perfectly if my partner is not on board to do thi. 

Also the other main reason is that no matter what the cap rate they set you can always put it higher or lower multiple .10%'s and sell it no problem, no one is that perfect in there market analyzation etc to pick the perfect bottom number.

No one expects perfection.

You might be waiting for a long time before all the stars align to make something perfect with low prices, low interest rates, path of progress, etc etc.

Podcasts and books are the perfect way to make you a strong investor in the future.

To share some numbers on how many projects are being submitted with multiple units... see below data on the permit applications for City of San Diego, which is a combo of public data + our analysis on text fields describing the projects (to extract things like unit counts... it's directional, not perfect data).

It is not a perfect platform but it does work pretty well and they are very open to comments about what could be better.