This distinction is important to handle the passive losses.

At it's core, real estate investment (in all of it's flavors) is a people business.

The seller's perception of themselves has no bearing on a buyers purchase money arrangements, in their opinion you're in the business and they are wholesaling, actually there is no distinction as you are the end user/owner.

I'm not sure about the distinction, but UDirect was adamant, so it must have to do with IRA regulations about SDIRA's.

Then buy some if those flavor injecting needles that you use for marinating meat.

(definitions and distinctions can be quite important, obviously)

There would have to be some distinct advantage in going the student rental route.  

In the Utah market, the distinction lies in "owner occupied accessory apartment" vs "legal duplex."  

I think there is a distinction between a real estate investor and a landlord.

—Dallas 1994, no writ) (recognizing a distinction between an option and a first-refusal right); CORBIN, supra note 1, § 11.3, at 468–69 (“A right of first refusal is not an option contract.”); BRYAN A.