Now this timeshare development was never developed fully, only maybe 20 percent because the original developer went belly up. ..there were too many timeshares in this area for the market.The developer who bought the unsold timeshares at the tax auction donated the weeks for a tax right off. 

Hi BP,I have a friend of mine bought a land through tax foreclosure auction...he bought it without doing any due diligence ahead of time, anyways he found out its a very small lot and worth nothing if he is trying to sell.The appraisal value is $12k and he paid a bit less but no body would buy such lot on the market...somebody told him to donate the land to the city or the county or some sort of organization that helps people and file it on his tax return as deduction. my questions are: 1- Any suggestions who to target to donate the land 2- If he donated the land can he file it as a loss or deduct it from his tax refund at the end of the year...he is entitled to pay some capital gain taxes on other properties he sold so this deduction will definitely help.3- If point 2 is doable will he be able to file based on the appraisal value $12k?

Second avenue is, of course, donate for tax write off.

If you want to lose money every month donate to charity.  

So birth certificate, certificate of live birth from hospital... social security card... blood type... organ donation later....

Within 15 years of investing we plan to be able to donate 5,000 a month using the rental income from our goal of 20 multi-family properties. 

I just donate to the homeless or goodwill, along with towels.

Having said that, myself and a few local friends are donating some money as well as our time to build this house for this family.

For example, we can be especially bad with buying cheap books and leaving them everywhere...so we try to use resources like the library more often or we'll donate our excess.

Our PM company recently mentioned that they had just found this amazing software that allowed them to do national criminal and eviction searches.... transunion smart move!