You materially participate in an activity if you're involved in the operation of the activity on a regular, continuous, and substantial basis.

In the lifespan of your investing if you continue investing this speed bump will become smaller to you.

Interest rates continued to drop till 1992 reaching 7.5% when I decided to pull the trigger.

@Suhaib - For me, the biggest driver is the ability to increase rents for a particular building/property and then investigating what it would take to get the rents to that level.

Not sure how often that happens and to the extent it does, how much individuals are receiving.Trying my best not to politicize this, but have to add that massive bailouts are going to continue to get harder to afford with the high federal debt we have today.

So, you may continue.

Distressed homes are hard to find, and I am learning that I don't have the fortitude to withstand the rehab process.My goal continues to be finding residential and commercial (office/conference space) property for rental purposes over a one- to five-year period.

There's something called daisy chaining, where wholesalers sell other wholesaler deals and continually mark up the prices. 

This is a great place to learn and further investigate investing in real estate.

I'd love to see them improve and continue to be successful.