Accredited Buyer Representative, Certified Residential Specialist, and GRI-credentialed broker Lee Schwartz co-founded Team Metro Real Estate on Fifth Avenue in downtown San Diego's Bankers Hill, near Balboa Park and the San Diego Zoo. Investment property exchanges and short-sale transactions generate capital-gains and forgiveness-of-debt tax events that require coordination with CPAs such as Goodsell & Co Inc., CPA's in Bankers Hill. The boutique brokerage's 20-plus-year partnership specializes in residential and commercial sales across the Bankers Hill, Mission Hills, and Encinitas markets, with additional designations including the Seniors' Real Estate Specialist certification. Team Metro owns its Fifth Avenue office building and maintains long-term tenants, anchoring the practice within the Bankers Hill commercial corridor. Buyers targeting older Bankers Hill properties for renovation consult residential architects such as Hubbell & Hubbell during the inspection-contingency period to scope structural and design feasibility. Highest-complexity engagements include multi-property 1031 exchange sequences requiring reverse-exchange parking arrangements, simultaneous close coordination, and 180-day replacement-property identification across San Diego and North County submarkets.