I'm sure you could connect with students on campus who need a place to stay, lowering your chances for vacancy with the duplex you own.

No chance I can be finished with the house by then.

👀 If you house hack in LA or NYC you'll need to rent out the bedrooms on top of the other units to have a chance of not losing too much $ every month.

Touche' there is that but our product we owned was only 15 million of it and if she was not selling our houses we own she would be selling someone elses.. the point is if you put in the work know what your doing after about 5 to 7 years in a market were average sale prices are 400k and up there is a strong chance you will make 100 to 300k a year and your marketing budget will be a fraction of what a wholesaler spends to try to generate their income.

Unless you have $5 - 10k MONTHLY to spend on marketing this is what you need to do to have any chance for success with wholesaling.  

I say this not to discourage you, but rather to encourage you to prepare for what lies ahead so that you have the best chance of success. 

This specific tenant is in a program so the longer they take to send me the document, the chances of issues coming about is higher.

By any chance is that double the number of doors you own now?

You can probably find some around DFW in some of the outer cities for around $250,000, so 1031 the ones with the most equity into more properties with chances for more appreciation.One thing I would suggest is not to buy NEW from the big production builders. 

Based on all those factors, your best chance would be to partner with a more seasoned investor to get loans.