Location in definitely key....any where a hospital makes a huge difference.  

By doing this 1031 exchange they will indefinitely defer paying the tax on the profits. 

I hope someone can direct me to the specific code that limits cities from keeping a unit Available for Rent indefinitely.

Now they’ve said they are holding for an Indefinite amount of time and since then they’ve stopped responding to me and email once or twice a year with corporate speak that says nothing useful. 

This is actually a problem - since now you are treating them as one activity, they will carry forward indefinitely. 

We have a dozen or so properties there, that are without water indefinitely, perhaps as long as month.Of course, that's small change compared to the utter destruction and loss of life.  

Likely would move it to weekly, if you can pump it entirely out of the basement then it's handled indefinitely (you just need to check on the bilge pumps). 

I don’t have an immediate need for the equity transfer but it seems like the right thing because mobiles are so hard to leverage and I don’t want this new property using up all my equity indefinitely. 

and the rest of the profit will be indefinitely tax-deferred in the 1031 exchange.Best of both worlds!

Perhaps a Green Card if you are going to stay for a long time or stay indefinitely.