Has anyone done this and is there a product you would recommend?

Totally local product, very little transportation cost.

I'm opening US distribution of my products here, since South Korea is doing well on it's own now.  

Our family is 3/4 vegan with the only animal products we consume being leather and cheese, however, we are phasing both out.My position as the president of a tool company and a precision agriculture company consumes most of the time.

I recently graduated college with a B.S in biochemistry and started a production job at 40k/year with about 20k in savings and no debt at all.

This poster certifies that no products or services are sold through this program.Hi BP!

One thing I can suggest right now is that your use of the word "flip" and 1031 in the same sentence won't work.  1031 exchanges are only available to investors who purchase property to hold for productive use in business trade or for investment.  

These folks have an intriguing product.  

I tried to do a small deal with a partner using a commercial loan (as req'd given that we'd have an LLC, etc) but we decided on these smaller deals that it wasn't worth it to partner up and use a commercial loan product...have you found this same situation in your deals?

I do think you'd find value in listening to the ideas in this podcast: http://mixergy.com/interviews/john-ruhlin-ruhlin-g...It's with John Ruhlin, founder of the Ruhlin Group which is the #1 all-time distributor of Cutco (this has nothing to do with the knife company other than him being the number one man to move product).