From there the amount is diminished until you reach 150k in income at which point you lose the ability to write off real estate investment losses against your income taxes.I went over this example numerous times before posting the question as I wanted to try and get my facts straight.

Listen to numerous podcast and attend REIA meetings.  

It may be that one buyer is known to reliably close, or will reliably work with the seller on their 1031, or numerous other things. 

And they do not like entity changes immediately prior to sale and 1031 in general.But there's still an answer that we've used numerous times with clients. 

Going to rent out our current house this spring.  It has a history of getting water in the basement but after some new landscaping and gutters this summer we got very little water even with heavy rains.  It is an unfi...

One big issue is the ground water , we dug a test hole for footers and its too wet , so the engineer has to come bask and design engineered footers

This avoids those numerous calls. 

All those guys you listed, I know what they have, and their protection systems and all the numerous LLC and trust up to their eyeballs and self negotiated insurance plans, and have primary residence is asset protection friendly states and a full legal team, etc.

There are numerous posts on BP about landlord friendly states. 

Eventually I dove in but not after I listened to numerous podcast, attended numerous REIA meetings and met people face to face with like minded ideas.