What are your intentions with the property?

Also, since REI is a bit different than what they are doing, I doubt they'd award brownie points for your 10 hour "sacrifice," unless, of course, you doing this to build the business with the intent of offering them jobs when they come home (in which case I'll give you the brownie points!).  

Even though I have no short-term intention to exercise them, you never know what the future holds.

I have no intention of living in it and the bank had some very high expectations to make this go through by myself as a first time investor.

I believe that the lawmakers, while well intentioned, did not take this into consideration when expanding the privacy laws.  

Intent is more important than length of time held, and if the intent is to flip, it's not capital gains, regardless of whether you held one month, one year or 20 years...

This situation is what causes people here on BP to go off on wholesalers who write purchase contracts with no intention or ability to perform on the purchase.  

I joined with intent to either die or when I finished my tour get out hoping it would give me some type of normal foundation.

There's little if any instant equity, but it cashflows really well, so I'm reluctant to walk away, however I'm going to come up short at closing so exploring other options.Because I've never investigated wholesaling a property (until now), nor was that my intent when I entered into the purchase agreement, I only signed it with my signature, and didn't include the words "or assigns."

Goal is to use some of the equity "cash" to pay for the rehab.First, if you are buying with the intent to rehab and then sell (or flip) the transaction will not qualify for 1031 Exchange treatment.