Properties held for personal use or for sale such as a rehab/fix/slip will not qualify for 1031 Exchange treatment. 

The critical issue is your intent to hold for investment purposes in order to qualify for 1031 Exchange treatment. 

Window treatments such as blinds and curtains.  

Tax treatment advantages for investors, such as long term capital gains tax rates, depreciation, 1031 exchanges, seller-financing advantages, etc. are not available to flippers.  

I agree with you that disparate treatment could be implicated in housing laws when it comes to medical marijuana.

The beauty of that cash value, versus you doing yourself, is the tax treatment and the ability to leverage it.

Basically you should get favorable long term cap gain treatment if you owned it 365+ days.Less than 365 days and it's ordinary income.

I currently hold a State-occupied building worth about 1.8 million and a state funded Medical treatment facility worth about 600k, currently for sale. 

I'd tell him I appreciate him as a tenant and Home Depot has a treatment to clean the oil off the driveway and cardboard to put under his leak, and t must get expensive having to put oil i all of the time. 

Your options vary by state.Asbestos appears in some ceiling treatments, wrappings around pipes, insulation, flooring and house siding.