I was wondering if it would be a good idea to attempt to purchase a home/condo through this route or if the process would be too complicated for a newbie like me :).Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.Thanks!

With Covid and vaccine, this might be bit more complicated but doable.Also if I may suggest... these kinds of topics are rather controversial so I would also refrain from posting open questions like these in public forums.

Seller has a long list of issues it needs corrected, none are anything all that complicated.

It's not complicated to install, however, I believe your time can be spent better elsewhere than installing floors. 

These are more complicated because the Qualified Intermediary must acquire and hold or "park" legal title to the replacement property during the 180 calendar day exchange period.  

Sounds complicated. 

Just want to throw this in to complicate things even more. 

ALL brokerages will say they do know how it works, but I can tell you from experience once the more complicated questions came up they didn't have an answer or their answer was totally wrong. 

If you have no experience and you try to start off with a complicated, high risk, difficult to learn strategy (like syndicating a 300 unit portfolio), you'll probably crash and burn.  ...sure, a strategy like syndication could allow some to scale up quickly (if they're a master syndicator), but if you're a beginning investor, you're probably not prepared to take on something like that.Similarly, starting off with a $10 million self storage facility or 50+ unit multifam portfolio probably has a high likelihood of failure for an inexperienced investor (and the consequences of failing at that scale are pretty serious--e.g.; bankruptcy, and potentially losing a lot of other people's money and thereby ruining relationships in the process).Beginning skiers should start off on beginner terrain.

In speaking to many local banks I am finding that based on debt service coverage ratios I am likely to receive around $9M in financing, and coming up with the rest of the capital is a challenge I haven't been able to overcome.I have discussed phasing with the city to try and overcome the issues with capital, and it is possible for me to phase this project all the way down to 1 or 2 of these 5 plexes at a time, but will lose some of the construction economies of scale, complicate the site plan/ permitting, as well as make the financing a longer more drawn out and complex process.