Best of luck with your path to financial freedom. 

You may be able to take advantage of the parent-child exclusion here if done correctly for some parts of the property depending on the players. 

You can mix and match and combine each exchange as long as the reinvestment amounts and timelines are correct.  

Engineering quotes were outrageous for creating the plan and if I understand correctly I don't think they are rocket science.The founder of Spanx was able to figure out a way to write her own patents, so I'm hoping I can figure out how to create my own storm water management plan for putting down a basic gravel pad.Thanks everyone!

John Sanderson , you are correct about what “notarizing a document” is for, which is why I suggested that to the OP after the very first commenter here pointed out that documents can be falsified.Someone else suggested having the prospective tenant go to the county’s tax website to verify the property owner’s identity.

(list itself is separated with half towards the top of the first page, the rest several posts down)But I must say, @Caleb Heimsoth is absolutely correct.

Which is great if your on the correct path, however, if your wheels then are not pointed in the right direction you can crash and burn quicker too.

But you already have $500 in escrow towards the door, correct?

You can be successful with either track you choose, the path will just look different.

Brought in a number of concrete contractors and they all asked were they at the correct address, because the sidewalk they were looking at (my property) did not look bad at all, but the one next door (owner occupied) was in terrible shape.