That brings up another issue, you can test your subs by where they use grout vs caulk.Depending on your strategy, buy right? 

Unless something has changed but I hope they can speed up the production of them.

Is there anyway to defer taxes on selling a business or do I just have to suck it up and pay the capital gains? 

However I think in general you would get lower rates going to credit unions than bigger banks though maybe you might get more if they think they can make the money up elsewhere.

I ended up having to hire an attorney, file for a writ of assistance, and have the sheriff serve the writ by showing up and physically removing the occupants.

If you aren’t saving the money up to buy another property chances are nothing will pay a higher rate than paying it towards your mortgage.

While it doesn't directly offset the income picked up from the inherited IRA distribution on your tax return, this could partially or fully offset the tax impact and be a completely legit way to accomplish sort of a backdoor rollover.For example.. 

I'm a new real estate investor and I recently picked up Brandon's book "Rental Property Investing"..

I feel like it's a space where great operators can really clean up, since the bar is set really low, in my experience at least.

I had to look up what "variance analysis" meant.If I understand the question correctly, you're asking "What went wrong to not hit our 20% target?"