You would not have made this had you not adopted the murderer's narrative.I will be so bold as to dispute that narrative.

That attorney knows the flavor of the local courts and in all likelihood can provide guidance to the solution that is most defensible at the lowest cost to you. 

At least 750 hours in real estate trades or businesses in which you materially participate and more than 50% of total hours in real estate trades or businesses in which you materially participate.There are intricacies beyond the bold face though....Hours spent as an employee in an RE trade or business don't count towards the RE trade or business hours unless the employee is at least a 5% owner. 

The property must be free and clear of all liens for that flavor to work at all. 

The small multi families seem like the flavor of the month for sure, and the consensus here.

To be among the new intellectuals of the 21st century, to challenge the conscience of humankind, to write my name in letters firm and bold in history as a great and original thinker...I am reduced to a tragic, pathetic figure wheezing on the dust of construction debris, hands calloused and gnarled to tell a tale of innumerable tasks, back stooped after Herculean labors, misery made flesh, all in the name of love.Tale as old as time.

We need good decisions from our Government, not reactionary or flavor-of-the-month ones.

Once that occurs and the inventory is sold, the trickle in gentrification from those neighborhoods starts to increase the need for inventory in the adjacent neighborhoods (the same reason why Grays Ferry has been blowing up relative to PB/New Bold, and Cedar Park/Cobbs creek has been blowing up due to U-City. 2015 was the best time to buy back then because the city was making a turn around and you could still pick up properties in almost every neighborhood for dirt cheap.

Making bold moves and pushing self past prior 'limitting beliefs' Did you work with any real estate professionals (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?

Not sure how it tastes, but I have a feeling it is simultaneously full of itself and very touchy to criticism of its flavor.