Real Estate Professionals definition by IRS

[Nancy Wang]

Any tax guru here can help me confirm this: even I spend more than 750 hours/year on real estate activities (managing my own rentals and being a RE agent), because I have another full time job (computer engineer) so my RE related hours is not more than the other job's 2000 hours a year, I still cannot claim myself as "Real Estate Professional" when file tax return? 

[Jack Halldin]

Google Hanna verses the IRS, you don't want to mess up this definition and professional tax advice a must.