I do believe that everything is for a reason... and I'll eventually find a good house in a good location.  

I realized a few years ago that becoming a player in the real estate world was my ticket to eventually spending most of my time playing music.

Eventually, I'd like to have enough rental properties where I would be able to then focus on fix and flips to further elevate the business, while still purchasing a few rentals to keep padding my cash flow.

Do people push into Lincoln Village eventually?

If you are not a buy and hold investor, then it's definitely not for you, as you're right, eventually you will have a large tax bill, but it may not be a bad idea to simply hold a property that you've 1031ed into multiple times cash flowing until your death.

One of my experiences was working for a social media marketing company that catered to realtors.My short terms goals are to wholesale in the Tri-State area and eventually house hack.

If you pay everything off then eventually you'll run out of debt and won't be able to increase the cash flow.

The idea would be that I run it, refurbish as I go (needs lots of work) and eventually take over.

You likely would have eventually gotten clear title, but you would have had to do a quiet title action on it. 

We do the same with the eventual sale of the property and disbursement of reserves.What do you think?