The best accountants and CPAs will be able to offer you a secure document transfer system in order to keep your sensitive information safe, and also be able to conduct their bookkeeping and tax return services electronically as well, saving both time and money.In my personal ventures into real estate, I have started several LLCs and would be happy to share my real estate experiences with you. 

Too controlling when you own the place, and frankly not needed.2) To be honest, you may not get a more precise answer than a range of "losing" 5K a year, to making 5K/yr. 

Depends on what title was transferred to the buyer.General warranty deed usually warranties for full chain of title.

Identify actual buyer who is willing/able to pay at least negotiated price, plus finder/transfer fee ($5-10k, for example); create a contract with end-buyer that identifies finder/transfer fee, agreement to complete purchase, and assigns difference (if any) of contract price and end-buyer price to self4.

also, not all realtor brokerages are the same, some brokerages may have more support or more transfer knowledge but your commission may be less; in other brokerages, your commission is higher but the transfer of knowledge is much less.

If there are leases, the seller should have given you those as well when the property was transferred.

@Avery BilesThe BRRRR (Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat) strategy relies heavily on precise cost estimates for rehab.

In your case, the city will require a fault trench study to determine the precise location of the fault line.

Transferring to a LLC provides you fake protection (note I am not an attorney but have common sense).

They would essentially gift the money from the lenders perspective, but from the 1031 perspective the funds will be transferred directly to escrow at closing so it may satisfy both sides.