We will shop for used appliances where we can when we need one… or pick up used cabinets if we can, or search eBay for something smaller,  but going to the extreme of personally shipping something big in internationally for one-off renovation needs seems like a stretch of reasonable.Just like you mention, the number of unknowns would not seem to be worth it to me.Just my 2 cents.Randy  

I've done enough personal home projects to know, if I find a deck company it'll be 2k, but a GC will charge me 2.5k to over see it...

I am still personally buying rentals but I am not expecting much in the way of cash flow at the moment.

If you make the person an LLC employee you can get around it, but partner does need to be careful. 

The challenge was balancing the relationship between landlord/tenant and a personal/friendly relationship.

Quote from @Monish Anand: Start by looking for personal recommendations from investors in that market, then look on realtor.com or a google search.DO NOT use agents suggested by a website like realtor, Zillow, etc.

Please, those who have already done wholesale, answer whether the chain of actions that WHOLESALER should perform is correct or not, maybe there is no need to do some steps or actions at all, please explain me those who have already done wholesale, thank you very much.

Of course when doing the 1031 exchange your basis will carry forward into your replacement property.Where you have a potential issue is establishing your intent to hold those properties but immediately selling one or more them as soon as you have them ready. 

Personal finance is as much behavioral as it is math.

I personally would never invest somewhere that could outlaw rentals.