There is no statutory holding period or list of prescriptive actions that in an of themselves "qualify" a property for 1031 treatment.  

If you buy a property with the intent to hold it then even if you hold it for less than a year it would still be an investment and eligible for capital gains tax treatment or a 1031 exchange. 

In many locations you are no longer permitted to install garburators/garbage disposals due to the adverse impact they have on sewage treatment infrastructure.  

For a potential solution, the short answer is for your lease to include minimal housing requirements... standards, if you will, for tenant behavior.

I would think it would be a good solution for you before you start going for HML.

I use REAL ESTATE SOLUTION SPECIALISTI know I will be asked the question- what does that mean?

She tried the window unit solution until a new outside unit could be sourced.  

The consumer public experts from estate agents certainty in the transaction, brevity of its duration, quality of the information provided and suggestions of financial solutions to their needs.The estate agent must therefore know the civil law regarding real estate, the relative fiscal dispositions, the urbanization laws and regulations, valuations, understand the Cadastre and all those norms directly or indirectly concerning real property.

I would then like to go and meet with those families as an investor interested in purchasing their property and find out if that is a solution for them.

After losing thousands of dollars on one house after the appliances disappeared, the solution I found was using  mobile alarm systems that I can move from flip to flip.