But sometimes the biggest problem is letting the urgent but unimportant tasks fill available time.

Delegate this task to others so you can be doing other things.

Not to mention finding the deal and performing all of the other tasks to get the property ready to lease.

I read your post while multi-tasking earlier and was not able to reply at the time.

The company specializes in complete gut-rehabs, but performs smaller tasks as well.

Perhaps the Drug Task Force folks if they exist in the area or Narcotics, not just the patrol guys...someone more interested in making a bust.

Just as selling a property held for 364 days can have a significantly different tax implication than the same one held for 366 days, my task is to identify revenue and expense items where there might be tax year variability.

Comping properties is an artform and takes lots of practice. many RE agents can't even perform such a task for rehab flippers, even with all their access to MLS data.The key to evaluating your exit value (ARV) is to really know your market, know what it was doing and what it is doing.

Somewhat of a daunting task, haha.

As it seems clear you will be using financing your short time frame to move into an apartment building via 1031 exchange seems aggressive Trading in depreciated assets can be a challenging task, I am sure you can find much more information on 1031's within the site.