I need a mentor in this area.For NJ, I wouldn't go near them with a ten-foot poll unless I had bought sight unseen before.

Depending on how upscale your finishes really were, you could have that built in this market for 300 to 325 per square foot fairly easily right now.

In the first 2 minutes of setting foot in the house, I could tell not a whole lot had been done to the property.

My units don't come with refrigerators but for $25 a month more I will supply a basic unit.  19 cubic foot, no icemaker, no water in door, etc.

They will most likely be able to give you a rough cost per square foot.

A lot more comes down to price per square foot than people outside that area understand. 

The labor it takes to renovate 1000 square-foot property is typically the same depending on the finishes whether the house is going to be worth 500 K or 200 K.

I rebuilt a house in the area a decade or so ago that had cracks in the walls that I later discovered had a 6 foot diameter bee hive in it.

If they're not familiar then it's your chance to get your foot in the door by bringing 1031 education to them.It's been a few years since I checked but at one time NAR showed statistics that of all the transactions potentially qualifying for 1031 exchanges, only about 10% were actually handled that way. 

But well done getting your foot in the door.