You as a home owner can use the proceeds as you see fit.

Proceed to Step #4.4.

Deploying 1031 proceeds from California home to a more landlord friendly, higher cashflow location.  

I found a few that I liked and Melissa was able to help me quickly identify which ones were best for me and proceed with the purchasing process.

My damn, it's a lot less headache to sell, buy where you are and invest the proceeds somewhere else that is winning.

If they are too busy or too lazy to answer a call or send a short email, what else are they too busy for?

Here in TN we issue POQ within a couple of days of rent being overdue, usually giving them 14 days to correct before official eviction proceedings start.

I took no money from the cash flow (when there was any) and I never made a late payment to the bank.This fall, nearly 12 years after the bank gave me that house, and over 15 years after I knocked on that door - after evictions, vacancies, insurance claims, and never taking a dime out of it - I sold that house and placed all of the proceeds in a 1031 exchange.

If the seller has equity at the closing table part of the proceeds could go towards the utilities being caught up.

I'm not thinking of 'scaling' my business by becoming a 'passive investor' in someone else's business.