If you're in the Irving, TX area give me shout, I'd love to hear from fellow investors.

Hi Mark, nice to meet a fellow Bakersfieldian.  

I have over $100k in escrow and I lost a private lender due to the 1031exchange rule due to the seller changed the closing date.

@Casey Nordendale send me a msg of your travel dates and I'll point you to all known meet ups while you at here. 

"We're moving at the weekend, hope that's ok" or "our closing date moved and we need another two weeks" and so forth.

You should inspect these when you buy with an estimated date of when they will need to be fixed.  4.

Final date for offers is in a week.2) is a 65-35 split a bad deal on my part?

http://www.har.com/content/newsroomHouston Real Estate Highlights in April Single-family home sales declined a fractional 0.6 percent compared to last April;On a year-to-date basis, single-family home sales are up 1.6 percent;Total property sales declined 2.0 percent to 7,583 units;Total dollar volume fell 1.6 percent to $2.01 billion;At $278,544, the single-family home average price was down 1.0 percent compared to last April;The single-family home median price rose 3.3 percent year-over-year to an all-time April high of $217,000;Single-family homes months of inventory climbed to a 3.6-months supply versus 2.9 months a year earlier;Townhome/condominium sales fell 12.6 percent with the average price up 4.1 percent to $206,832 and the median price up 7.3 percent to $153,450;Leases of single-family homes leapt 18.1 percent with rents up 2.6 percent to $1,811;Leases of townhomes/condominiums soared 26.0 percent with rents down 1.7 percent to $1,574.

If you have the time you can search the gloucester county recorder records of  by date and keep up with it...

Always great to meet a fellow Bronxite