Regarding a 1031 exchange, while the property was rented and treated as an investment property during your deployment, if you maintained it as your primary residence for tax purposes, it may complicate eligibility.

Investors get stuck and cannot cash out because of tax complications.

And you don't have Schedule C to deduct the business expense.This might have changed if your RE portfolio was run like a business and/or you have a partnership; the partnership would then deduct the travel expense as an ordinary business expense.As I said, it gets complicated quickly.

It's complicated.

I think many investors stay away from it as it can get quite complicated. 

So, for police officers to investigate these sorts of things is complicated.

Let's ignore the package of or individual SFHs for the moment though, since that is a little more complicated and seems to have been a distraction.

its too complicated for the average investor they wont understand it.

I'm not trying to make this venture complicated or even hit home runs on every deal.

Way too many over complicate it.