Establish some "safeguards" to keep them honest and consistently check their work.

So the tradeline game is and will change.

First, find an excellent realtor that is familiar with Nashville and has been in the RE game long enough to have seen the ups and downs from pre/post-Covid.

And your pension is not on Sch 1, it's directly on line 5 of your 1040.Whether or not your old losses offset your pension or your gains is a very complex question, but the bottom line is: yes, the losses become deductible.Now, you astutely suggested that you may "win" the game by increasing up front depreciation, even though it is offset by a correspondingly higher gain.

I am starting my real estate investing journey and have been hitting a wall with the type of entity that I should establish to start my business, such as an LLC.

Like others mentioned above STR's have become quite tricky but mid-term is still fair game and not subject to the same restrictions.

I use a scoring system where applicants gain and lose points and their total either meets or falls short of my established line in the sand.

A little bit of pain now for prosperity later - thats the motto with this game haha! 

You squire the deal and they dispo the deal to their established buyers.

We added a yard game area/hot tub/pool/etc.