If you wish documentation that you posted this (some landlords will do this), take a newspaper with you and take a picture holding the front page of the newspaper (with the date) next to the notice to confirm the date you provided this.She then has three days to pay her current rent (and late fees). 

If so, they get a $500k exclusion...In this market that may or may not cover it though. 

Check for obituaries which often list relatives, many are on line or could be gotten from old newspaper records. 

Why not just get an exclusive listing agreement rather than getting it under contract and assigning?

Put a sign in the front yard, TV ads, newspaper ads, stand on street corners and hand out flyers, hold open houses if you want.

I would like to know if this was a good idea or if I should just focus exclusively on real estate?

Real estate purchases are not my area, but I know a couple attorneys who do exclusively real estate. 

Now that my overactive mind has had a chance to relax after getting all of that ^^ out after a couple of intense days of twisting and turning ideas and insomnia, I'm realizing that while the whole TIC + 121 + 1031 exercise was helpful in that it brought us to a spot where we came up with the idea for how to take the $500k cap gains exclusion from the sale of just the upper, I see now that the whole 1031 motivation that inspired all of this thinking isn't actually necessary/beneficial.

Hey Folks,So I am in the planning phase of creating a construction/home improvement/contracting company that will work on my rehab projects exclusively, offer services to other local investors, and offer services to home owners as well.  

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