I am reporting everything and paying taxes as required by both countries, then cross my fingers and hope for the best.

Fingers crossed.

The investor I work for lives and works in Austin (which continues to be a ridiculously hot market, so unlike here) so he doesn't have his finger on the pulse of the Dallas market as much as I do and can't really advise me in a different direction.

All of their hands are dirty but that doesn't stop them from pointing their fingers at all of the landlords.

I’m not going to keep my fingers crossed and hope I have a pension and not take action on my own outside of that.

Not sure if they do it on the regular but fingers crossed that this process makes it through closing!! 

Since it sounds like you've already closed, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this was just a personal use prop and not a rental - you can't use a 1031 now anyway and your taxes would likely end up being higher. 

Doing this tough task will enable you with a finger tip feel for what a good deal and more importantly; a good sponsor/GP team looks like!

I love amazon, but honestly sometimes I wish there was a competitor as they're able to stick their finger in the eyes of half the country with some of their comments and it's not like anyone can go to "the other amazon". 

I agree that it will be interesting to see how HQ2 plays into the Seattle market, and fingers crossed about Federal interest rates!