IE: get signed purchase agreement, contact title company, pay-off tax lien, secure title and then close with cashier check at the title company?

Also, gauging whether or not you align with the ethics and culture of the company is crucial considering those are the people you are going to be spending the vast majority of your time with.

I co-own a short-term property management company.

Because he is a W2 employee and, I assume, he is not one of the company owners.

The HEI/HEA is not feasible because of the percentages most companies are wanting to take (some are over 50% of the appreciation from the date of the HEA).The biggest question is that we'd be losing our 2.875% rate, which will be paid off in 15 yrs.

From what the attorney said after speaking with the title insurance company the lien was put on in 2018 + 15 years.

But I'm happy to answer any questions about MTR property management as you search for a local company.

Many national STR PM companies working on a percentage of gross income (Daily rates + cleaning fees) charge an elevated cleaning fee.

There’s a lot of misinformation out there that is presented as knowledge.One can do a reverse exchange where one buys the new property first and then sells the original property after - all via a 1031 process. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/reverse-exchange.aspReverse exchanges do exist and they are “legal”. 

Usually insurance companies only cover loss if the property is uninhabitable.