Simply leaving the money at the selling title company puts you in constructive receipt and wrecks your 1031 from the get go.  

Its worth noting that if a citizen wrecks your house and leaves the country, you have the same chance of getting anything from them as a green card holder who does the same.

With that said, I have a house off washington, that iv lived in for 3 years now, I am all in for around 1050 a month, my upstairs pays 1100, and for the first few years i had a roommate for 350, which covered heat and cable, so I was happy just living 100% for free, it wasnt worth packing another guy into a room and wrecking my quality of life for an ever 350 a month.

I would hate to buy this particular property and the inside of the house be an absolute wreck inside.

It was an absolute wreck - a real slum-class property

To get a seller to show you they are 'on board' by missing mortgage payments, wrecking their credit in the hopes the bank will accept a short sale while you emphasize to the bank all the repairs needed?    

It sounds like a train wreck waiting to happen, even if the returns justified the costs.

If you decide to put up blinds, you can spend a few hundred dollars on something like Hunter Douglas, only to have a tenant wreck them in a day.

How many times do you drive on the road without having a wreck and how many days pass without our house burning?

Jesus, he has been a train wreck for investors for over a year.....just google, past 1 month/year.