Your costs will be high and unless the property is renting for a very high dollar amount, the return could be poor.

Do you have a reliable lead generation engine akin to those described by BP podcast guests who are always from the US: driving for dollars, DM campaigns, cold calling via virtual assistants, evergreen website with traffic directed from SEO paid word searches, etc?

I was picking between Rocket Dollar, Alto, Equity Trust, Specialized Trust and wanted to know what y'all thought or if you had other providers you'd suggest?

If you own a 3 million dollar trucking company and just wanna buy a couple rentals...likely a trucking industry focused CPA would be your go-to. 

When you record the transfer it is considered a real market sale, not a dollar or a family transfer.

Cost/complexity of the exchange - These will add several thousand dollars to the typical 1031 fee. 

He is also saying it won’t let him enter a dollar amount.

Since you're at a low marginal rate (and my prediction is that they won't go lower), I'm of the mind that you're stepping over dollars in the form of potentially foregoing buying additional bank financed properties. #3 is a good idea so you don't have to pay the capital gains.

What some people do, when they don't have hundreds of thousands of dollars in the bank, is they will take a loan out on their 401k or do a HELOC on their primary residence (If there's enough equity in the house) so they can make offers as CASH on these properties.

So far I've been searching to find distressed homes by posting on craigslist, asking for tax delinquencies, and driving for dollars.