If it is a flip - then you cannot use 1031. 1031s are for rental properties.If it was a rental - then yes, you can use a 1031 exchange. 3 pointers:sometimes it makes more sense to pay the tax, so run the numbers firstuse an experienced 3rd party intermediary, like @Dave Foster or @Bill Exeteryou must engage them before you sell the propertyGood luck!

Would it be better to go with non-friends as you select your power team?  

In order to get power turned on our management company paid them and then we had to sort it out later.

I avoid high tension power line routes and toxic waste dumps areas and industrial areas and light manufacturing areas and main highways.

Unfortunately, we started pretty late so can't rely on the power of time to help us much.

Not even incense or an over powering air freshener.

You need a purchase & sale agreement, a title report, a Power of Attorney for authorization to talk to the lender, a payoff amounts, disclosures to the sellers, and escrow.3.

When the bills come due and you can't keep up with them, there will be bitterness. 

We are here to create, we have the power to choose our own path.

The mortgage and all the bills are automatically paid.