However, you may be able to sell your % to the other investors as one sale and go forward with a 1031... if the corporate structure can handle it appropriately, if you can say/demonstrate that your intent when you went into the deal was to hold the property for productive use and now that the groups direction has changed you are selling your portion to purchase other property to be held for investment.And if the improvements to the property would not cross the threshhold of "creating inventory" and could be classified as ensuring best and highest use.  

How helpful is it to build a big/productive team?

Is there a product available to LLCs that’s very similar to a HELOC, that is secured against the asset, but doesn’t have extreme costs like hard money, typical portfolio loans for flippers, etc.?

I would be at the mercy of the sellers lawyer and the slow court system.

Most of them have really slowed down.  

Both are a great way to get started slow and learn the basics, before jumping unprepared into wholesaling and risking to get a black eye and walk away to quickly from what could be a great career opportunity for you.

Real scam - carbon monoxide is a by product of the combustion process. 

Home improvement products, Real Estate, encyclopedias, it doesn't matter those are standard cold call numbers since the dawn of man or something.If you know them it's easier.  

They are slowing being removed from my properties. 

It's like trying to solve a Rubic's cube under a slow strobe light.