One of the biggest reasons we need properties is to retain our credit score.  

Also, through doing Property Management, I'm able to source more "off market" deals, and I can retain management on those properties after selling them to a client.

Where I live, one state down from you, unless the language specifically excludes the owner from ever utilizing the property again, when someone grants you an easement you don't own anything - you retain a permanent right to utilize something, owned by someone else, generally without any further cost or required payments on your behalf, and allowing both you and the property owner to assign their rights (i.e. sell the property) to someone else without abrogating the legal agreement.

If you leave, it will be very difficult to retain any SEO value you've developed over the years, and you'll have to evaluate that sunk cost, which is a tough spot to be in.So I've signed up with IC to check it out and maybe run an A/B test with Adwords, and so far I've had only a few problems with it (advanced stuff), that I contacted chat support about yesterday (it was a holiday, but the proactive prompt suggested they were active, and they were not).

Curtis,To me, having several properties clustered for sale is more a signal of 'peak' pricing; Owners believing that they can get more now then later.

It seems that one would need a team on retainer, so it would be just as easy to manage a property 6, or 600 miles away.

At the end of the day, the goal is to retain the tenant.

The 1031 can be a huge part of your strategic positioning within the macro cycle because it allows you to move to different types of real estate, different amounts and price points of real estate, different geography and even from active to passive investments all while retaining the advantage of tax deferral.The one thing that's very individual though is going to be risk tolerance from debt.  

I am going to try to answer this with as much transparency as possible, while still retaining whatever privacy I can, haha. 1- Read this post.2- See screenshot3- Optional rehabs, really.

Couple people took it as an opportunity to make me seem like a jerk and thus virtue signal (such a big juicy temptation for people on social media these days).