And I mentioned (and others) the same rules could produce unintended consequences--the exact opposite effect.

Most investors know this and immediately distrust the sponsor upon hearing a forecast like that unless your client can produce a track record of having delivered a similar return on previous deals that have gone full-cycle. 

My current line of work is as a producer of online content.

For SEP and qualified plans, net earnings from self­employment is your gross income from your trade or business (provided your personal services are a material income­ producing factor) minus allowable business deductions To learn more about self-employment income rules, see the following. https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/self-employed-individuals-tax-center

Most importantly for your consideration, we have produced numerous entitled land deals, where we have acquired, entitled, and sold to both homebuilding and apartment development companies.

These income producing properties are a good source of income for our business especially in the tough times to cover overhead when we aren't building homes.

The safe harbor applies to amounts paid during the tax year to acquire or produce what the regs call a “unit of property” (UOP), you must meet these requirements: (1) at the beginning of the tax year, the taxpayer has written accounting procedures treating as an expense for non-tax purposes amounts paid for property costing less than a specified dollar amount (which will be 2500 for you), or with an economic useful life of 12 months or less;.(2) the taxpayer treats the amount paid for the property as an expense on its books and records in accordance with its accounting procedures. ( do this on your bookkeeping software or whatever you utilize)(3) the amount paid for the UOP doesn't exceed $2,500. as substantiated by invoice.Note: The cost for the Unit of Property includes additional costs (for example, delivery fees, installation services, or similar costs) if these additional costs are included on the same invoice with the tangible property.Eg:A purchases 100 printers at $500 each for a total cost of $500,000 as indicated by the invoice.

I enjoy being able to walk my dogs to the fruit stand to get the freshest produce that is locally grown.I feel very fortunate for having found the Bigger Pockets Community.

It might be one of those things like every other person in L.A is an actor or producer., it's funny you mentioned that about syndicators , it does seem like there are a ton of them these days.

Our overall strategy is to acquire and flip houses in order to generate capital to buy revenue producing properties (apartment complexes ect.)