I found my calling with financial investments (securities, including those related to real estate).Somehow I had the foresight to buy a home early in my corporate career ("buy the biggest house you can afford because housing prices will always go up, the balance on your mortgage will always go down, and your income will always go up").

We thought that rents could be raised as well, but also thought the asking price was decentIt our situation, we paid full asking price, but also asked for $20,000 at closing to fix various issues and have some in reserve in case things went bad quicker than we thought. 

However, those types of buildings (at least where I am from) are currently overpriced, or in really bad shape in bad neighborhoods. 

I would walk the property and see how flexible he is or if he would remove the 3 bad ones as part of the deal.

And I've never had a 1031 go bad because of it.You're right - you do not need to have a QI in place to go into contract. 

@Sean Liszka We have a career night at my office every month if you're interested to check us out, send me a message.  

Problem is we done ran into two bad contractors so now asking what now.

If you have  good or bad reviews, please list them here.  

Just checking because I had a couple bad experiences with meetups (not all real estate), as they ended up being more of a sales pitch.  

The problem is that I currently enjoy my full-time career, which is not real estate related, and would rather focus most of my time and effort here.