On March 8, 2017 my property is now restored and is back in service.The HOA's master insurance policy dealt with the repair to the building structure.  

My experience with property management.My OKC property caught fire once and it took six months of coordination with the restoration company and the PM to completely fix the house.  

I have a friend who tried to do it the stealthy way, and the ''departments'' came in and made him restore it back to a garage.

Purpose of funds: Home restoration for rental.

I have recently purchased my first ten units and I am currently about 50% done with the complete restoration.

Finishing touches, renovation guru, heartland restoration 

My understanding is you get a one time restoration of entitlement where if your first property is paid off, you can get the entitlement used on it back without selling it.

If it is too much of a loss, check the ID rules (you can check my blog on here if you're not familiar) and ID as many properties as you can within those limitations so you still have a chance to go check them out and worst case, you buy one and use some of your money to defer tax and take boot on the rest, or worst case, none are good deals, you lose the 1031, but better to at least ID a bunch and give it a shot.

There are a few pockets that resemble North Park with beautiful restored homes, owner occupied, etc.  

I went to a local restoration business & asked for referrals.