Is it my responsibility to aid them with this or they should try to find means of preserving their food in the meantime while we wait on the parts?  

I think having it in an LLC preserves flexibility.Whether the operating business itself should be an S-corporation or an LLC depends upon a lot of factors specific to the business and your state's tax laws. 

We MUST care about our neighborhoods to preserve our investment!

Since the foreclosure crisis courts have been much more permissive toward direct property preservation activities that certainly look like ownership.

Usually brokers hire a property preservation company, like us, to do the preservation work on the REO/FHA/HUD/VA/Foreclosure properties.

If you had said that you wanted to liquidate your rental portfolio and wanted to know how many you could sell and still preserve the long term capital gains tax treatment, I would have given you a completely different answer.

He does this for house preservations too.

To me, its really about preserving the loan terms.Sale of the LLC, i.e. business, however, I THOUGHT was not taxed as capital gains.

I have a $250,000 gain that I would like to preserve tax free since I've lived in it the last 2 of 5 years. 

That is a very valid point and definitely requires vigilance on the part of the paid staff and moderators to preserve the sense of legitimatecy that's been carefully developed in the forums.