Upcoming foreclosure auctions are found in public notices in newspapers of general circulation for a period of weeks prior to the auction sale.

To claim the home office deduction, it must be your primary office and used exclusively for business.

I grew up in KC and will be moving back there soon to begin investing in real estate and am almost looking exclusively within the 435 loop.

This is not exclusive to real estate.

The section 121 exclusion thing is pretty powerful if you can force appreciation on a property while you're living in it.

It also went into the local newspaper.

Here in FLorida, in the 2010-2015, I sold almost exclusively SF investor homes (about 200 of them, to investors from Cali, and abroad), and as values rose, and ROI's dropped, I found the natural progression was toward multi, to get worthwhile returns for my clients. 

The cost is higher and there are typically more exclusions on those Excess Lines policies. 

I designated shelves in the refrigerator and shelves in the kitchen cabinets for their exclusive use.  

Entire gain is qualified for the capital gain exclusion.