I would intent to live in the property during the first year when I am in the United States, my wife will live there full time for 8-9 months during that year and I would use the property as a legal primary residency. 

For a property to qualify for a 1031 exchange, it generally needs to be held as an investment or for productive use in a trade or business, which typically excludes properties built with the intention of selling.

So basically Ill be paying 12K a year for property taxes on a 320k building.

The reality is the opposite - if it's not in writing then the PMC doesn't have to provide the service or can charge extra for it.We have a 12 page management contract that we've added our real experiences to over the years, with the intent of protecting both us AND the landlord.

Maybe start a thread asking for opinions from people who helped them the most….ill start. 

In doing this you've likely committed fraud since your entire intention was always to close with the 2nd at 100% LTV...I've watched the video where Pace describes this and in essence he says that treating them as two separate transactions is fine and there's no need to tell the lender.

Vacating a jointly-owned Property: A Borrower may be eligible for another FHA-insured Mortgage if the Borrower is vacating (with no intent to return) the Principal Residence which will remain occupied by an existing co-Borrower.

just curious, because ill use that method next time.

Purchase price: $310,000 Cash invested: $20,000 Bought and lived in while making upgrades with the intention to rent out.

I am not trying to avoid taxes but defer them which I thought was the intent of the 1031 exchange.