Unfortunately Calif is a horrible place to be a landlord. 

They don't enforce late rents, they don't forward me new leases, they have horrible workmanship for the money, they are not responsive.

They were horrible.

Sometimes it will seem great, but then it gets it horribly wrong with confidence.While most exchanges are relatively vanilla, using an experienced QI and tax advisors in the process is well worth the avoidance of blowing up a 1031. 

Thanks for the horrible advice, @Matt Carroll, who keeps posting all over the form that ConnectLinx.com is a great company! 

Generic lists + poor skip trace data = horrible results.  

This sounds horrible.

The Fair Housing Commission is a horrible organization... 

Can't do that, but I often wish for one, when I see someone receiving horrible advice from someone with zero personal investments telling others what they should do..

She was asking for $20,000 but due to the horrible shape of the home I offered $12,000 and she accepted.