One of my contractors does a lot of property preservation and make ready work for a HUD and B of A contractor.

At my current stage and concern about the U.S economy and future, I'm looking to preserve and protect what I have and incur little risk of huge loss.

So be careful to preserve your LLC's status as a separate entity, but also carry lots of liability insurance.

He brings many great speakers & vendors to his events, including servicing companies, loss mitigation & other special servicers, hedge funds, attorneys (including SEC attorneys), property preservation, due diligence companies, marketing courses, & a myriad of information on how to esstablish relationships with banks, hedge funds, other note investors, etc.  

It will be a Green Community Development with 60% of the forest preserved.

With hardwood for the rental, you would need to do a bit more work to preserve and maintain it.

In this case, however, giving the property away before death will not preserve the basis: when property which has gone down in value is the subject of a gift, the donee must take the date of gift value as his basis (for purposes of determining his loss on a later sale).

Short sales are difficult to do and they may be trying to preserve both sides of the deal.It sounds "shady".

When developers are able to build additional floors on their property but choose not to or are restricted by reasons such as historic preservation, they are able to sell those developmental rights to other developers.

Its called self preservation...