As Chris mentioned, the taxpayer has to stay the same between the 1031s.

I'm not sure the steps to take to purchase the property from the executor who does want to sell the property. 

Property is a 3/2 SFH 7 miles from the beach and 4 miles from OWA. 

Told them the whole time I would never live in it.

There’s part of the answer.Anyone else experience this same increase in costs?

For the bankruptcy properties, we contacted the trustee phone numbers on the website, however, they usually just replied to ask us to look for debtor's attorney.For short-sales, we searched the listing on zillow.com, but majority of them are off market.We used BP recommended realtor and asked if they can help with the properties we targeted, the realtor searched for a week of the foreclosure ones and get back to me that she believes she will not be the right partner.

Fellow landlords, have you ever rented to tenants using the social program from SafeHarbor.org?

The property had an a small house that was falling in but the well and septic on it are all good.

The bigger the property, the different the agent on the commercial side.

This is the one that is foreclosing.