Did you work with any real estate professionals (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?

The lienholder is required to provide 21-day notices of foreclosure sales of a residential homestead.

They should at least provide a pop up window warning of the implications for active accounts, if nothing else. 

It depends on the terms and conditions of your application (hopefully you presented a formal offer to lease that provided for forfeiture of deposit if the tenant failed to take possession).

Cleveland is a great cash flow market, but you really need someone who knows the area to provide guidance.   

Did you work with any real estate professionals (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?

I was at REWBcon this year and there was a vendor, Turbo Tenant, who said they provided pm software for people just starting out.

The power of compounding in real estate is real - yet most professionals don't understand how powerful it really can be even though they talk about generating wealth.The true power of a 1031 exchange is the ability for an investor to meet their investment objectives without losing equity to taxation.

As you know since you're over 59.5 you can take distributions without penalties so you'll have to decide that along with your tax professional.   

. :) For now, we are just getting into flipping and are trying to run some hypothetical scenarios though a calculator to rough out costs and estimated ROI for our first wholesale flip.Thanks for any guidance you can provide!