so much private land has been logged and replanted since then.. in those days we would buy a 40 lets say for 150k  take 200k of timber off of it then sell the land on contract for same price then hypothicate the note to pull out more cash rinse repeat.. we also would use our logging roads and staging areas stratigically so when we left the roads were in the right place to do a 4 way lot split and the landings/stagging areas became the building pads.. in the NW permits for logging are not tough.. in those days it was over the counter and there was nothing you needed to do with regard to excavation.. however if I just bought the land and wanted to put in roads and pads then I would have had to get a grading permit and all the survey and engineering that went with it.. its was really something how we did that.. and I miss it to this day.. the other item that made it so profitable was Japan was paying premium for Export quality doug fir logs.. you could get double or more for export logs.

There are so many short term places today that competition is tough, so adding something no other property has, being creative in design, something like that to stand out, people want a unique stay, and with a fixer-upper, you can do whatever you want!

You can simply go to the Cost Seg Audit Technique Guide.As for tax law, yeah the standard is if you deduct anything on that return, you have the obligation to prove it if challenged.

It's tough to get to that scale without having a massive driver of income or value add.

Thats tough.

If that proves not to be the case I will auction the drive and garage to the highest bidder with the losing tenant getting to park in the street.   

Not trying to discourage you but it's tough.

Tough for buy in, but nice for out value.

So our hopes at reconsideration based on on the historical permit records are slim to none.So it looks like our only move here is to prove that the coach house has been existing as residential for at least 20 years and get an administrative adjustment. 

Although I have been able to negotiate on pricing before, it can be tough.