Unless you are doing multiple flips, your biggest mistake was to not wait another month to close so you could have counted the profit as a long term capital gain.

Suarez Count me in.

Besides counting on properties to appreciate, how do you see the 1031 as a path to 'get rich'? 

Esp if you are deployed in CA, pretty sure it isn't hard to do, your AZ property will count as part of your income (or deficit) and the other x units will count as well.

I can't count how many deals I looked at, hesitated and watched sell without having the guts to make an offer.

FHA is more conservative than conventional when it comes to counting rental income, however.

All inquiries of the same type inside of the "window" count as only a single inquiry.

But if I'm wrong, please confirm.Georgia for sure had the most number of closures per capita, and probably the most total count.

If you counted the amount underwater on their mortgage, the % rose to 2/3 of the population.

(I would like appreciation but I won't count on it.)I would also like to know from those of you who are investing in areas far from where you live if you are using turnkey companies to handle everything from purchase to management, or are you doing it piecemeal with Realtors and prop management companies?