These can be considered real estate (just eliminate the title).

The step up in basis eliminates it.Again, you speak of "locking in appreciation." 

One particularly neat trick in your situation to shelter against a down turn and mitigate the tight timelines of a 1031 would be to purchase say two properties with your proceeds - one for cash and the other with maximum leverage.Has the effect of eliminating the risk of leverage from at least one property so if the market goes south you have one protected. 

If possible, reduce or eliminate water going down the drains until the drainfield dries out.

Are you saying you want to eliminate the side lights?

Earlier this year the town voted to eliminate all short term rentals and sent cease and desist letters to all the Airbnb's in town. 

Whether title has been eliminated.

with 16 rentals I am eliminating erentpayment out of the options.  

Doing this usually eliminates more than 50% of the applications without the need to make a call.

My observations are: there is no correlation between un-banked applicants with no credit history and tenant performance, no/low credit history means they are not in default, any age group can have low/no credit history, if you rely on credit scores only then you eliminate some good tenant candidates.