PM and we can exchange contact information.

It was a 1031 exchange and our attorney handled it flawlessly, even when a few wrinkles (tenant not leaving when the lease was up, cash for keys, a cleanup holdback at closing that could have triggered capital gains on the holdback amount).It all eventually worked out for our client's benefit and a big part of that was having a staff attorney.

I'm not familiar with 1031 exchange. 

I file jointly so I know I'm okay on the cap gain with a 121 exclusion; however, my question is can I use a 1031 exchange to avoid the depreciation recapture? 

There are a lot of foreign nationals (Canadians, Mexicans, Great Britans and Californians ;-) that invest in the Phoenix area.

But what choice did I have having no capital, a foreigner and at the time just quite my first corporate job?

Then after my second devoice I went to work for a local large management company doing rehabs making some one else money I don’t do every thing flooring is best left to guys that know what their doing and not typically a one man job, roofing I can do it but again not really a one man job, didn’t do drywall for a long time either because need to know what your doing and I didn’t found a guy that wanted to learn about plumbing when I was working for a management co in Minnesota we work projects together to exchange skills now I can make a hole in a wall look like it was never there or sheet rock a whole house.

@Deborah Burian it went very well actually connected very well with an investor and exchanged business cards with him. 

Real estate broker'', hereinafter referred to as broker, any person who for another person and for a fee, commission or other valuable consideration, or with the intention or in the expectation or upon the promise of receiving or collecting a fee, commission or other valuable consideration, does any of the following: sells, exchanges, purchases, rents or leases, or negotiates, or offers, attempts or agrees to negotiate the sale, exchange, purchase, rental or leasing of any real estate, or lists or offers, attempts or agrees to list any real estate, or buys or offers to buy, sells or offers to sell or otherwise deals in options on real estate, or advertises or holds himself out as engaged in the business of selling, exchanging, purchasing, renting or leasing real estate, or assists or directs in the procuring of prospects or the negotiation or completion of any agreement or transaction which results or is intended to result in the sale, exchange, purchase, leasing or renting of any real estate.

And you will get to defer recapture indefinitely as long as you do a 1031 exchange when you sell your property