Last year I declared bankruptcy(due to a bad loan and lemon of a home) which is now discharged so the home is in foreclosure.

I am currently paying for the electricity, water, and :gasp: oil heating for both units.

Then treat the subfloor with an oil based primer such as Zinser or Kilz.

As such, I'm having to make offers even before my local agent has seen the property.Do veteran buyers write in anything special to your purchase agreements to give you an out if the place is a lemon?

There are lots of potential replacement property options inside of a 1031 -- including multifamily, commercial, land, oil & gas rights, etc. 

Having said that, if you're in upstate New York and your town is considered by lenders (notice how I qualified "considered by lenders") to be rural or if there were ever any underground oil tanks or other things like that, you're going to have to go with a local bank. 

Keep an eye out for any termite damage, in-ground oil tank (it may have been decommissioned years ago, but may still be in the ground).

According to Kiyosaki, he owns 4,000 apartment units, five golf courses, silver and gold mines, and oil drilling operations, yet he pays NO tax, making over two million per month "without working, tax free".

She's running good, but I've never changed her oil, and I think its about time to put her down.

i think one of the markets that are going to produce reasonable value for buy hold investors in terms of equity appreciation is in some of the more desirable suburbs like sugarland, katy, woodlands.. homes where say a mid level engineer or some middle to upper manager might have risk of job uncertainty given oil and want to essentially get out or need to get out.