Location is not important as 1031 is a federal statute applied the same everywhere. 

Opportunity zones allow investors to defer their federal taxes on ANY CAPITAL GAINS until December 31st, 2026, reduce your tax payment by up to 15% when it’s due and pay as little as zero taxes on potential profits on the properties that you purchase in these zones if you hold the property for 10 years.What does this opportunity zone / opportunity fund have to do with Syracuse?

I'm not familiar with all of the different government programs, but for Pensacola, the city is covered through February in terms of the Federal money it passes along to its affordable housing programs.

The owner of this particular property is in Federal prison.

Do you get some kind of federal tax break for setting up a corporation in Nevada?

Back in October of 2013, I was working in Arizona at my federal government job when something happened that I never had experienced before.

This is one of the reasons why I lost my s*** for a minute when we had that discussion about federal workers getting rent amnesty because they didn't plan for contingencies -- when landlords don't plan for contingencies we end up stuffed in a crawl space with a sob story printed about us in a local newspaper and people speculating about what we must have done wrong.What we actually know is that the LL was in physical proximity to the tenants and the result is that the tenants are now able to tell their story while the LL is not.

Banks wont seem to do a ELOC in TXRefinance quote with Navy Federal ended me up with over $2k in various fees.

@Daniel StanzialeYou may want to look into doing a house hack and using the IRA money towards the down payment.There is an exception that up-to $10,000 of IRA funds can be used for a personal residence without penalty.The distribution will still be subject to federal and state income taxes.

When you sell, you must reverse these deductions and pay tax on it: up to 25% Federal tax plus CA state tax.