An agent that recently showed the property reached to stating that their client love the property but would like to know if the landlord would be okay with installing a gas line or gas stove either at their cost or landlord cost.

CLO2 is a gas which gets into everything.

Your realtor friend and the investors you've met both make valid points about investing in different areas of Atlanta.

Have a specific SOW and a Valid State contract.

As are cellular towers, fiber, the internet, the local gas station, vape shop, computer monitors, keyboards, search engines, and just about everything else you can imagine.  

Put gas in a car? 

I can imagine a complicated mechanism that would produce an arguably valid 1031 strategy...but it almost certainly would create more problems than it solves.  

Let people know what research you've already done and ask for validation and additional insights.

I put gas and electric on the budget plan to smooth out the usage trends and find that that works well for me.

You make the valid point that we are all just providing opinions.