Account Closed forgot to mention to you is that you have a 10% property management fee, possible utility bills on the property that need to be paid, and he forgot to add vacancy (10% is safe) in his investment options.

If I can buy property that has a reasonable rental price, in a good school district, has the normal desirable rental attributes, and is in a good safe area for families, I believed my downside was limited for the property. 

This is a technique I like to call Regional Arbitrage: Take the high salary you can generate in NY, SF, Seattle, or DC and utilize it in a much more investor friendly market.You are targeting the right kind of investment if you are looking commercial.

I covered that in my first paragraph in this post.The whole technique is focused on doing exactly what you said in your last two sentences.

Even electrical and plumbing(safely).

Since its inception, there have been new investors that have thought that the grass is greener on the other side of the border and has convinced themselves that they have cracked the code on how to safely invest remotely, that this time it is different for them, and they will succeed where the many thousands have failed.Heck, Julius Caesar knew of the perils of out of state real estate investing ... and if his property manager did not perform he would take their head off.

Wilma really did big damages to my property and it was Cat 1-2.Stay safe!

SFH, Safe, in area of appreciation, positive cash flow, good schools, easy to rent etcBased on this info can we narrow down to more specific areas?

The only two parties that are part of the 1031 Exchange Agreement are you and the Qualified Intermediary, so the only safe way to identify your replacement properties is to identify to your Qualified Intermediary.If for some reason you did not identify to the Qualified Intermediary or missed the deadline, then you can always try this as an argument should you get audited, but if the identification was not provided to the Qualified Intermediary there is no other "safe" way to do it. 

It is about maintaining a safe and habitable home.