Hi,I've recently been learning about real estate investing, and as I'm going through this I'm realizing how fragmented the technology and data is, and how manual the opportunity identification is.

Generally, reporting companies must provide four pieces of information about each beneficial owner:name;date of birth;address; andthe identifying number and issuer from either a non-expired U.S. driver’s license, a non-expired U.S. passport, or a non-expired identification document issued by a State (including a U.S. territory or possession), local government, or Indian tribe.

@Vin Gupta Insurance is an issue state wide, not just Orlando.

The local assessor generally assigns the Parcel Identification Number.

Typically we get a copy of their license / identification and pull credit etc after they sign a credit authorization form.Typically notarized documents are needed when recording them with a county, but for a contract it’s very rare to have contracts like a lease notarized.

The county website only lets someone search properties by address or PID (Property Identification Number).

Like @Alex Olson is saying you may start looking for potential replacements you like at any time before your 45 day identification time frame starts. 

Section 1031 has many requirements, 45 day identification period, and a 180 day settlement period (including the 45 days). 

Hello @Sam Liu,We've completed over eighty 1031 exchanges and know well the scramble that can occur during the 45-day identification period.

For example, if a seller knows we are in a 1031 and says "no concessions/repaur requests, take it or leave it"  after our 45 day identification period is over we are screwed with a bad deal.