Depending on when you and your wife sell the property will dictate the treatment of the gain you realize for tax purposes. 

., Properly constructed DST's and TICs and capital land leases are all different types of ownership products that qualify for 1031 treatment.  

Is the chemical treatment works?

I want to clarify one portion of it though: holding for 12 months has little (if anything) to do with whether or not his properties will qualify for capital gain treatment.

Due to having to self-fund Cancer treatment for both my wife and I (thanks president obama) we are in the same situation... trying to restart a business.

If you're having trouble come up with ideas, let me see if this will help...First thought: are any of these properties near places where homeless veterans receive treatment for medical and/or psychological conditions, or near enough to mass transit to meet VHEA guidelines?

If I move forward I plan on having the sellers purchase a whole home termite treatment. 

My thoughts about renting in D neighborhoods are that 1) your tenants are not going to care for your house what so ever and might trash it/steal from it and 2) even if you get a high ROI, in a high crime area like that you may just be risking your life, especially if you stick out like a sore thumb.You are not really mitigation any risk in this situation.

Total damage--$1200 treatment and rebuilding a wall that we were planning on moving anyway.

As far as parsing out the outliers, that's not particularly difficult, given a sufficient sample size- meaning, if you look at enough similar properties, there's a handful that will stick out like sore thumbs that can be discarded.Charles, I wish you had messaged a little earlier this morning.