That will tell you fast if this path gets you there or not.Are you trying to replace income quickly, or are you okay stacking 2 to 3 properties a year and building to that 50K over time?

Replace a VA when performance drops after multiple coaching sessions or if they're inconsistent with showing up.

We are still in the midst of doing our due diligence to reverse engineer what our offer could be considering first what we can rent out the place for and working backwards from there.

Attempting to terminate or replace the lease mid-term can create unnecessary risk.The clean approach is to let the current lease run its course, document the ownership change with the tenant, and then execute a new lease in the LLC’s name at the end of the lease term to align the paperwork with the ownership structure.

It's like a development deal in considering your engineers and architects as partners.

Likely owned by GSH Ventures,another retail multifamily real estate schemeElisa Zhang is a real estate finfluencer, formerly a computer engineer, who markets herself through the ElizaZhang Financial Independence University41.

Appreciate the pushback — I agree that this doesn’t replace city-level analysis or deal underwriting.

That’s not automatically wrong, but it’s not trivial either.Selling with ~$130k–$160k of equity gives you flexibility, but a 1031 only makes sense if the replacement deal is clearly better on a risk-adjusted basis, not just “same cash flow, bigger property.”Bigger properties often trade some simplicity for scale.

When you sell the replacement property, then the gain will be recognized in the form of the lower basis.

I want to replace my active income with rental income and at this pace it is going to take a very long time.