Defending them is akin to defending any pied piper that this forum supported.

@Ian M.For the owners hiding behind the bare trust agreements, you can pull up their names by doing an online search for "David Baines: Real estate investors settle class-action lawsuit" Mr Baines before he retired was a business columnist for the largest newspaper in British Columbia, the Vancouver Sun.In this article you can see the payment the defendants (who I am talking about) had to pay out to the plaintiffs.

Yes, you need to do a cost segregation study"Don't you two have a vested interest in defending this position? 

Find an Ohio lawyer to not only defend you on the government charges but to go after the contractor.How much real estate experience do you have?

And I am for freedom of the speech to the point that I will defend the rights of others to use ad hominess to attack me.

Same goes for CPAs, by the way.EAs are more qualified in defending you against IRS problems, this is what EA training is about.

Not many can do this, but if you can make yourself do this, I promise you, success will follow far more reliably.I am not defending, my opinions because they are mine.

Lastly, while looking through the County Court Record I found a dismissed Eviction record filed this year Feb of 2024 on the prospect, the address listed on the record for the prospect (Defendant) is the current property they reside in but found another management company (RENU Property Management) as the plaintiff (this one was easier to look up as it operates nationally in several states).I usually have no problem with this as prospects usually reside in a known management company serviced in the area (Most are the typical corporate rental companies like First Key and Progress Residential, and some with the more known local management companies.).

The judge granted the current second note holder a default judgment because the defendant failed to appear in court and respond to the summons. 

The defendants siphoned off more than $31 million in profits from their criminal enterprise.