In any deductible expense, we need to establish business purpose, and here the purpose was obviously his personal hobby of collecting, not protection.Also, he apparently considered a law enforcement career - another strike.And then we have the classic pigs-hogs situation.

Classic chicken & egg. 

Classic example of the old saying that "good finances produce good credit, not the other way around."

That's my 2 cents for Athens, Georgia, The Classic City, home of the Georgia Bulldogs.  

I think he's got it... may be worth exploring (I don't work for Brad in any way, shape or form).What you have my friend is a classic example of "The Elephant & The Mouse Relationship".  

Have spent many years in the car business I can tell you there is always a discrepancy between your "Classic" modeling score and your "Auto" modeling score for instance.

The classic example would might be "would your wife feel comfortable and safe here?" 

@Avery Carl if you wait on everything for approval you could be waiting a while ,, just remember the classic saying “ it’s easier to ask for forgiveness than permission “

The easy money seems to be gone from real estate.  2009-2012 there was a lot of upside with little downside.  2009-2012 there was a classic "margin of safety" and you were buying assets for their "intrinsic value" as Warren Buffet likes to say.  

To hold him who has taught me this art as equal to my parents and to live my life in partnership with him, and if he is in need of money to give him a share of mine, and to regard his offspring as equal to my brothers in male lineage and to teach them this art—if they desire to learn it—without fee and covenant; to give a share of precepts and oral instruction and all the other learning to my sons and to the sons of him who has instructed me, but no one else.And we also see that from those you tought as taking the new oath, according to NOVA over 50% of them believe that the oath is for traditional purposes only and they are not bound by that oath.Yet paradoxically, even as the modern oath's use has burgeoned, its content has tacked away from the classical oath's basic tenets.