I'm no tax expert, but i believe to have "dealer" status you must derive 100% of your income from real estate.Again, I'm no expert, but that's my limited understanding.

The negative isn't so bad if you can derive some benefits taxwise.

@William HustonI'm telling you to have a long chat with a live-in flip specialist, a 1031 exchange specialist, your CPA, and your spouse about the tax ramifications of buying a rather expensively-located but unsightly, rundown single-family Florida house with 1031 exchange cash derived from selling all or some of your current rentals.If the chat goes well, with any luck, you will find a family in deep financial distress who have made silly personal finance decisions needing to sell their aforementioned not-so-nice single-family house as quickly as possible.

Regulations Z and X, derived from the federal statutes, and the Commentary to the Regulations also benefit consumers in suits against predatory lenders.

Any derivation is not something they can claim ownership to without a fight.

In a couple of years i want to use income derived from that to help qualify for a mortgage.   

Property  held for investment is any property that produces portfolio income such as  interest, dividends, annuities, or royalties not derived in the ordinary course  of a trade or business.

They can't be connected to you or derive any benefit from the transaction to be accepted by a court, should that be needed.

AVMs, which is just some math formulas that derive a value based on some inputs is void of human input and interpretation.

In my opinion, mostly positive, because of the cultural overflow.State reputation for public schools/education.This is a tricky one, but I would try and derive a natural disaster score.