It's human nature for me to miss out on things I am not familiar with, so please forgive my ignorance.

Naturally your relinquished property must be sold before you can take title to the new property, but its a great way to make the process as smooth as possible.Even though the time frames can feel daunting I find that 95% of exchanges from my clients are successful.

(2) Does anyone have any best practices or tips on dealing with rental properties and tenants that have been impacted by a natural disaster?

As someone who lives in Dallas proper, and gets good natured annoyed when some one who lives in Plano says they live in "Dallas" they places you mentioned would make folks who live in Prosper blush (40 miles from Dallas) blush.

Hi,I spoke with a multifamily seller recently, and he told me that he was involved in a class action lawsuit with Pace Morby with the nature of it seemingly around the Sub-to deals he structures.

We had a pretty nasty cat pea cottage, stripped lots of drywall ended up spraying about 10 gallons Kilz oil throughout. 

I would caution on comparing these returns to the S&P 500.Real estate has been pretty much flat the last 2-3 years while the S&P has been on a great run.It's human nature to sell the lows and buy the tops.

i have a great property i could send you that i found has many great qualities its a cozy modern home with workshop and detached garage price is close to half a million but could very possible to change the sellers mind for your price range seeing as it needs renovations not many but still need them this property is in washington state but the area is good for selling seeing as a majority is rich and looking for nature vacation getaways right by a beutiful lake and mountain contact me if you would like to find out more i will have to note if you consider and take the property i do require a finders fee of a minimum of 500 depending on the deal 

That said, I'm either missing something or this is another snake oil scheme.

Agree with @Sarah RoskoThe nature of most bookings are out of towners that book before they see the place or really know the neighborhood.