I'm never in favor of government over stepping, but I can also see how desperate individuals can be taken advantage of during this tragedy. 

Cost segregation and advancing depreciation has its pros and cons depending on what the individual investor's goal is.

we did this a lot pre 07  in that year Oregon WA and then CA made laws that had lots of teeth about dealing with those in foreclosure.. so we just stopped doing it risk was not worth it.I cant see how an individual can do this really..

The entire goal is to help you / individuals like you who are interested in a finding an agent who works with real estate investors.

You cannot blindly message individuals on BP advertising services.

Could be.I think that for most individual American investors leverage is a critical tool. 

They can't assess all the subjective data like overall layout, view from the living room window, the dogs next door that bark all day, the width of doorways, size of individual rooms, quality of kitchen cabinets and appliances, etc.The best thing to do is study your market regularly.

So the question becomes based on their individual and personal tax situation what is the estimated tax burden they'd save? 

Individuals are purchasing these properties, rehabbing them, and raising rents.

I focus heavily on the sell side and on the buy side only work with high net worth individuals so the newbie wanting a 400k multifamily with an FHA loan probably isn't for me.