A short-term hold can make it difficult to argue that you did have the intent to hold, but if you could demonstrate that you did in fact have the intent to hold for rental or investment purposes but that you got an offer out of the blue that you could not say no to you would qualify for 1031 Exchange treatment. 

I agree with @Jo-Ann LapinThe Inland Empire in great, strong blue color towns are the best option for you.

Click on it and that'll create the blue hyper link at mention you see everywhere.  1.  

Stick with older properties in blue collar areas.

I bought one of the white and blue ones and paid less for that then the one I bought in the 80’s.

Towns near malls or train stations etc or neighborhood with mostly blue collar workers?

How much should i expect to pay an architect for doing all the blue print?

@Joey Tatara use the @ symbol then start typying joe and it will tag him in blue and notify him of your post @Joe Morris

- It this area primarily Blue Collar, White Collar, or Student tenants?

I am moving back to reality, where homes are 250k-350k for your average blue collar home vs 850-1.2 million for Surrey Blue color homes.