@Robert Rose If you look in the classifieds you'll see 2 courses I just posted.

Bigger Pockets has a Classifieds secton, I believe you can post there. 

I'd like to discuss this with a syndication attorney but I thought I'd ask this forum first as I'm not sure how many syndication attorneys would honestly say we don't need their services and give steps needed to avoid being classified as a security.

I posted about one of them today in the classifieds 

(There is a question as to which my property will be classified as by the appraiser).

I was distracted and talking to someone about fix and flips and letting them know that the sale is taxed as ordinary income instead of capital gains and completely messed up what I was trying to point out.I was trying to say that STRs may help to offset some ordinary income with losses if you actively participate, whereas LTR losses only offset passive income unless you are classified as a real estate professional.

Conventional, however, will allow the home to be classified as a primary residence, and for the veteran's income to be counted for DTI purposes, if only the spouse moves to the home for now. 

Would we be automatically classified as real estate dealers in the eyes of the IRS for this one flip?

Leasing a LTR is classified as passive despite the occasional needs to actively protect the asset.In Ocean City, NJ there was a little store that had stores within it.

Taxes are typically classified as expenses and deducted as current operating expenses.