I’m just a person who has received help from many people and is always willing to continue that pattern to others.

This article is pretty spot on about migration patterns.

I finally feel like we are hitting a new normal pattern where I can focus on these things.My best friend, who is in my industry as a Senior Construction Manager for a national hospital provider, started pushing me last year to begin helping him on the side with some of my development knowledge as a consultant.

The IRS (and the regulations) care most about "intent" and pattern. 

@Ryley Marble did you ever get any contacts?

I noticed a pattern in his statements and it revealed a fallacy that most people have: He felt that the profit in flips comes from the rehab.

I'm coming to find that most of what we look at as success is just being able to help people and offer solutions to their problems, and I can see how REI follows that same pattern. 

The tenants are exhibiting a pattern of under-communicating; this is not negligence on my part. 

It's about patterns of behaviour.

There are three concepts or thought patterns a New person should adopt to help both themselves and people helping them.