This entails building personal / working relationships with people successful in the field.

The job would entail both indoor work, siding and outdoor decking. would really appreciate any good recommendations from the BP community.

This entails building personal / working relationships with people successful in the field.

The buy is fairly simple to understand to me, the ARV can be somewhat complicated but reasonable enough to understand (basically know your comps).... but when it comes to rehabbing.... quite frankly I have not the slightest on what that entails, how to estimate, etc.

Plenty of people (agents included) can come up with pie-in-the-sky ideas of how to change and improve a house, but few have a real understanding of what that work entails, what challenges will need to be overcome, and how long it will all take and what it will all cost. ...how did this agent know all this info?

That did entail stripping down a prior refinish.

Because unsecured debt usually entails minimum payments, I am a fan of the "pay off the fastest possible one first" advice than going the interest rate, assuming all of the rates are reasonably close together.

You would have to compare the amount of tax that you would pay or defer to the 1031 Exchange fee of $795.00 and the process that it entails to determine if you think it makes sense. 

The other investment doesn't have to be a rental, with all the work it entails.

I am not saying that your assumption is wrong, but I think it's a big leap without seeing what it actually entails.