@Rud Sev Your Section 1231 losses from the sale of rental properties were likely correctly reported on Form 4797 (Part I) as ordinary losses, allowing them to offset all types of income.

Would this information being out there make it more likely for me to be linked to LLC and thus for anyone to try to "pierce it"?

If I need any of them to do anything extra for me, I just work out a payment for that one thing and pay them by action.

@Deborah Wodell: for me it really comes down to deal flow and returns.  

She has a lot of experience in various forms of property development but we have two great deals at the moment where we have been able to combine parcels of land to create a development project.

I was skeptical but they were impressive for me.

I put my money where it’s going to perform best, either in real estate or my brokerage account in the form of an S&P 500 index fund.

I know there have been delays and issues during government shutdowns but this is a new one for me. 

We are not forming LLC. 

For me, 37206 is the only true zip code for East Nashville.