You want to ensure they have adequate reserves and are conservative with the finances.  

Expansion and contraction is a key player in the key playing against you.

In my experience construction contracts do several things in summary: list the players (client, contractor, design professional), outline the scope of the work and the costs (whether they be fixed or variable), how the project will be carried out, and what to do if things go wrong.  

Also you need to ensure that all of the "net proceeds to seller" at the closing of the initial property, is rolled into the exchange and not taken out being that you are taking on a greater debt.  

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You could download them when you're connected to wifi using pretty much any podcast player app (i.e.

I started going to the NOLA REI Club, which might be worth going to in order to get to know the local players.

This is a competitive sellers market at the moment with a lot of players working the MLS, you can get some nice base hits here and there, but I don't know of anyone that's hit a homerun buying on the market lately.  

--Go to the 1st couple of closing to ensure everything is correct--The title company made a mistake at closing, which held up closing an additional day.

According to Freedom Mentor, this deposit is to ensure you also have some skin in the game and covers cost of some of the systems they have.