Giving him the benefit of the doubt and liberally interpreting this: "He also did say to make some attempt to sell items and whatnot, but that it's good to pay $1,000 towards the "business" and be able to claim $8,000 on taxes)."

After Portland liberalized its ADU regulations, it stimulated a boom in ADU projects.

The Washington Supreme Court ruled that they will interpret the law liberally.

You don't have to go to a private liberal arts college that costs 65k year to get a good education.

It's not a coincidence that Malaysia the ex British colony has the more liberal approach towards foreign investment and citizenship.- Property rights: although in some countries they know offered leasehold ownership only, but there're also other that started offering dual pricing scheme, for example, a condo XYZ with leasehold has $200k price , but Fee Simple-like ownership has $240K pricing.

You have hit the JACKPOT of resources for real estate investors.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac guidelines will not apply.Each individual lender will have their own different guidelines & requirements for "departing primary residence" rental income.Hint hint: the ones with the most liberal Fannie-like guidelines will not have the best rates, and the ones with the best rates will require two years of rental income on tax returns to "count" that rental income.I'd suggest an independent mortgage broker in Maryland, who will collect all your docs, and shop both the scenario and interest rate pricing among the marketplace to find the right home for the get-you-in-the-door purchase loan.

This was the Democrat radicals fighting the Democrat liberals and between them not getting a thing done for an entire year.

The more people I talk with the more it appears that there isn't a firm definition of performance; or folks are liberally using the terms depending on whether they are buying or selling.  

I stay away from more liberal states with high regulation and business tax.