One huge stress factor is that I solely pay property taxes, maintain and manage the units, and keep them rented while my parent routinely demands the split partnership if sold.

I am trying to isolate a couple of areas to work short sales.

Having searched the archive here, I have not isolated this topic before.

He's isolating himself from his friends and are critical of all of them.

Lastly, I understand that in a couple of isolated instances a the Qualified Intermediary has simply stolen the funds from the first sale.Are there other downsides to doing a 1031 exchange?

Like removing entire walls for example when mold is found instead of isolating the cause and replacing just what is needed followed by mold paint.

More than anything else my concern with the whole program is not that experienced, knowledgeable investors may not be able to find a way to make a profit, they will, although stories about isolated instances of making a killing may be just that - isolated and not the norm.  

What's really disconcerting is how the bad reviews are isolated to places like these but on YouTube, Twitter, etc. there is nothing that would suggest any problems with him or his company.

It is a single wide on .4 acres, the best thing about it is that it is off the highway, and the properties around it are 2 acres, stick built, there's nothing behind it, so it's isolated, and not as susceptible to a junkie neighbor coming in.

My first instinct was to just put everything on the market immediately after I closed but list the vacant lot separately from the house to isolate the value on each of the 2 properties.