The seller's agent drug her feet in getting back to my agent and missed promised deadlines.

As mentioned before, yes I think the 1st couple should be near home due to the fact that you wanna be close to your project to oversee things and make sure deadlines are being met.

I am debating if I should go forward with a 1031 which has the obvious time deadlines, or just to get the up to $250k tax free.

Good thing, because the attorney had dropped the ball and was about to miss a deadline for the bankruptcy hearing - I spent 3 days going through evertying I could find on Bankruptcy - I went to court, filed pro-se (for myself) against the attorney for the people that were trying to stop me from foreclosing...We won!

If you do decide to keep them, raise the rent slightly (unless you already have, and/or are at market for the condition the apt was in when they moved in), get the repairs done to insure habitability, and give them a deadline and a cost for replacing the AC filter ('replace AC filter by x date or we will do it and charge you $y as added rent' assuming your lease allows such).  

However, I needed an ASSURANCE that we would close within the 22 day deadline.

The city already knew about this unit and we had been given a deadline to vacate shortly after the sale.

I have a drop dead deadline of March 15 for my clients to give me their information.  

Here is some info to get you started:http://flamm.com/illinois-property-tax-lawyers/il-...http://flamm.com/illinois-property-tax-lawyers/rea...http://www.cookcountytreasurer.com/annualtaxsale.a...Don't forget to register and deposit your collateral by the deadline.

Here is some info to get you started:http://flamm.com/illinois-property-tax-lawyers/il-...http://flamm.com/illinois-property-tax-lawyers/rea...http://www.cookcountytreasurer.com/annualtaxsale.a...Don't forget to register and deposit your collateral by the deadline.