Please understand that Qualified Intermediaries, in general, are not licensed, regulated or required to be insured or bonded and have no minimum equity capitalization requirements.We recommend that you consider the following risk criteria prior to selecting a Qualified Intermediary:(1) The technical expertise and experience of the Qualified Intermediary(2) The level of protection provided by the Qualified Intermediary's errors and omissions insurance coverage, which protects you against possible mistakes made by the Qualiied Intermediary(3) The level of protection provided by the Qualified Intermediary's Fidelity bond coverage, which protects you from potential theft or embezzlement of your 1031 Exchange funds by the Qualiied Intermediary(4) The practice of using Qualified Trust Accounts or Qualified Escrow Accounts to ensure that your 1031 Exchange funds are protected by law as fiduciary funds(5) The protections provided through licensing, auditing, and regulatory oversight by regulatory authorities I hope this helps, and if you have any questions please feel free to give me a call or pm. 

Make sure with every potential deal that you run the numbers to ensure you have positive cash flow.

Or perhaps there is some other way to ensure that sellers won’t choose the buyer based on race or gender, whether intentional or unintentionally (implicit bias)?

That is solid advice with the sub-market to ensure I have a lower annual tax bill.

Incorporate the golf course membership in your HOA fee for these new residents to ensure a consistent revenue stream during your holding period.Upscale repositioning is more challenging.

I am not familiar with the specifics of NC, but generally speaking, you want to ensure that you have all of your leases, notifications, etc documented appropriately and provided in a timely manner.  

Doing due diligence on a seemingly valuable project and want to ensure I have the right numbers plugged in. 

Because landlording in the slums gets VERY profitable indeed if you're renting to shady people who understand that you're a player in a local gang and wouldn't dare pull half the crap we have to deal with for fear of illegal reprisals.But as for me, with my borderline C/D rentals?

We want to plant physical offices in each of these markets and take over like a freeeking virus no pun intended here.So we do need team players.

This is why the appraisal and the ARV is key... get really solid on that to ensure you can extract as much of your cash back out at the refinance without upsetting the cash flow.