I would love to sit down sometime to exchange experiences and ideas.

You cannot 1031 exchange stock into bitcoin. 

The best thing to do would be to pay an extra $2k (or even a little more) to the wholesaler in exchange for giving you 30 days to close.

However, I would never be able to get her to jump through the hoops of doing a 1031 exchange; hence the reason to transfer title via quitclaim.

Either way, the only way to profit is to sell and realize the gain, backing out closing costs and making sure you're adequately set up for an exchange unless you're okay paying capital gains tax.However, if the market is in a contraction at the end of your predetermined hold period and the value is at or below it's original value, then you would be required to hold for longer until it recovers and rebounds, but for how long?

I'd rather take half the capital gain in exchange for no headaches and hundreds of hours freed up over the course of the investment.

Once you have the residual that you need, you can always exchange out of them for something you prefer for the long term.This allows you to look across several types of investments as long as they are generating positive cash flow.

It sounds like you know your options.If I knew for sure I wanted to reinvest closer to  home, I'd try very, very, very hard to do a 1031 exchange.  

So most real estate attorney's can do 1031 exchanges. 

In exchange for purchasing the share of stock, the owner can live in the unit.