A 1031 exchange is a great way to indefinitely defer the tax and use it to grow your RE portfolio, and build long term wealth.The most important factor in a 1031 exchange is that your qualified intermediary must be in place prior to the closing of the sale of your old property.

First of all I put my acceptance criteria clearly in the ad: minimum credit score (enter X amount, 620 is what I use),income 2-3x rent, good rental history, references, no evictions, acceptance dependent upon background check and employment verification, pet policy, desired lease term, etc. so that people will hopefully read that and not come to the open house if they know they won’t qualify.

If you have lived in the property for two out of the previous five years you could qualify for the 121 exclusion, where you get the first $250k ($500k if married) of the gain tax free.

That does not qualify as "managing repairs."

It's also worked pretty well if doing STR since you can just qualify with AirDNA projected income, even if you have no STR experience.  

Has anyone worked with Upright in the past 2 weeks or so. It seems a lot of people have left, and it's difficult to get anyone to answer. Are they still in business?

If you are still working there, you can ask the plan administrator if you qualify for an in-service transfer.  

You Keep The Deposit And If You Want To Do A Buy Out Which Usually Is A Months Rents Or More That Will Give You Some Time To Find Another Qualified Tenant.

There is no reason to formalize all the paperwork because the cryptocurrency uses a recorded ledger. 

Additionally, the company neither authored nor provided the purported “malwareattack” letter to ORES, and Trofimoff’s claims about filing a formal complaint were fiction.