I am looking to buy commercial multifamily in Jacksonville, FL., I will also need a property manager after the purchase, does anyone have a referral?

However, this likely wouldn't fly for just one deal.

So flying to Indianapolis (for example) to check out neighborhoods isn't really an option for me at the moment.

In my area, bad credit, or passed due stuff, missed payments etc, would not fly but some other areas things are much different I hear.

Suggest you fly back spend some time looking at these places.  

. :)   its all out there on the web or the folks on BP can do what I do and fly 100k miles a year  spend 60 nights at the Hilton looking researching kicking the dirt and then figure out were to invest  :)  

Although you are not a real estate newbie, my suggestion would be to start with the Ultimate Beginners Guide (see the education tab and then the Guides fly-out - at least that's where it is today).

I have read that with the 1031 you should buy a property of equal or more value but where I have enough equity to invest in multiple properties or in land and do a build I don't know how to make that fly...  

I can fly up there in about an hour.. although I mainly go to Friday harbor..

Other folks like me pay someone 10% of gross rents to do that :-)Maybe your message to someone like me could have a different flair around: "Are you tired of spending thousands of dollars and using vacation days to fly out to check-in on your rental property?"