Refinance, take out some $ and use as downpayment on a duplex/Triplex under my name and hopefully only put down 3.5% since I am technically a first time home buyer.

Hi Jaylan,I would Recomend to try and help/work for a full time wholesaler, while helping them try to observe the right mind set that required for a successful business, learn their systems and technics and get expirianced, learn from thier sucesses but evan more important to learn from thier failures and mistakes.Also I'll recoomand you to start let everyone in your sphere to know that you are a real estate investor and buying disteress properties for cash, although most of your friends in your age probobly wont understand what you want from them, they will in 10-15 years from now and geuss who they are going to call? 

So, technically she is trespassing, right??

We are also trying to engage contractors and build dialogue for how much it’s going to cost to build.My questions are what is the best technical method to predict the fully built project value.

This allows you to be distanced also from the consequence of a normal sale (receipt of taxable income or gains).In a technical sense, you are not the seller and buyer in your own 1031 exchange.As has been mentioned, any national intermediary will be able to help you, regardless of where their office is located. 

So probably all of those transactions you are inheriting in this sale are actually technically wrong.

Other benefits of a refinance now:-Can refinance while interest rates are low (being offered 2.99%)-Can refinance while I still live in the property (plan on moving within a year and owner occupied rates are lower)-Can remove my partner's name off the mortgage and make him eligible for an FHA loan in the future (to buy another 2-4 family with 3.5% down)-17k mortgage pay down is technically money in my own pocket-I will get a tax break on some of the closing costs paidMy thought process is that eventually I have to refinance out of my FHA mortgage to go conventional to get rid of PMI (even if I was at 80% LTV).

@James Heller, technically the CDC moratorium is only stopping evictions due to non-payment.

I have houses in this program and work with clients who do as well; technically a client convinced me to go this route in the first place.

There's no shortage of Realtors or real estate agents that could technically usher you through the purchase transaction, but you'll find that there are only a few that can actually be a trusted partner in helping you vet the properties to increase the chances of long term success.