You should check with your 1031 provider quickly.

@Lillian Pintaro,Birmingham’s a lucrative market—it’s been my stomping ground for nearly 20 years, and you can find some excellent deals if you know what you’re after and dive deep by zip code, neighborhood, and city block.For what it’s worth, we manage 2,000+ units (many for out-of-state investors) mostly in the north and west part of town—so think suburbs outside the city limits like Graysville (35073), Adamsville (35005), Mount Olive (35117), Center Point (35215), and the like.Since you’re also open to the surrounding areas, places like Odenville (to the east) and Tuscaloosa (to the southwest) could be worth checking out.

Check out InvestorFuse online to take a look at our full pricing breakdownWe were the first company to do a turnkey Podio buildout for wholesalers in 2016- close to unlimited customizability, but robust, more challenging and difficult to train teammates on actually using on a day to day basis which is the main point of.

Also it would be helpful to attend SoCTREIA's Women in R.E. meetings, check out their website.

Not much there yet but there’s a gigantic project in the workshttps://www.mesadelsolnm.com/mediaOk, I'll have to check it out thanks !

As far as checking your accountant's technical competence, you can use this old but still applicable questionnaire:https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/51/topics/792277-how-to...Other questions that you may want to ask are listed in this post:https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/51/topics/795929-questi...3.

Having people write Spark Investment checks for $25K, $50K, $100K and more.

Therefore, I want to let the community here know about a residential contractor I would never recommend.Let me start by saying I did my homework...checked him out thoroughly. 

Anyone can live anywhere they want if they have the money, and sometimes houses are bought and then rented out without much background checking on the people moving in.

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