You must also materially participate in your RE activities.If you materially participate in each RE activity, losses are fully deductible.

However, the City initiated the “Buy Into Baltimore” open bid program (which we’re interested in participating) through which you can bid/buy city-owned abandoned/vacant properties for redevelopment/resale.The problem is, there are so many blighted neighborhoods in Baltimore, it’s tough to know where to start.

To qualify for material participation, you generally need to meet either the 500-hour or 100-hour rule.

Non judicial foreclosures do not require court participation; they occur mostly through deeds of trust rather than mortgage instruments.  

The whole ecosystem (and trades) is valued at hundreds of billions, but most participants bought in at well below 1/10000th of current prices. 

It's a method of getting them to participate so they feel comfortable asking questions and learning.

There was another property where I was waiting to participate in the auction, the counter reached zero and it says live auction will begin soon, again nothing ever happened. 

@Zachary Gray thanks for the advice, 300 units in 4 years is very inspiring and something to be proud of. 

There is a way to leverage losses from a rental property that you are actively participating in managing + you need to meet a few more criteria too lengthy to break down here in the forum post - to be clear, this isn't what you described (e.g. 

I may participate in CitaDAO's Genesis IRO, seems like it just started today, and has raised over $900k so far in the tokenization of a $20m buildinghttps://twitter.com/citadao_io...requires alot of crypto knowledge, metamask, so I'm trying to figure those out right now...