Rehabbed them with shoddy contractors, my husband, my friends, children who I pay and teach the skills, and lots of blood, sweat, and tears. :-)

(b) For purposes of this section, "mailing list" means a written or printed list, series, set, group, or aggregation of names and addresses of, and occasionally, other information concerning persons, including, but not limited to, potential customers or donors, that is intended for use in circulating material by mail.

Don't just absorb from people you THINK they are an expert and blindly follow.You know what the reason is in MY opinion letters, even the creepy ones .. like an eerie lellow letter written in blood... work?

Word circulates in the local REIA that Ben is not a man of his word....his reputation suffers.Outcome 2: I ask Ben if he'd consider a last ditch sale price of of $102,000. 

I am slamming creepy handwritten letters in goats blood...

Agree with Arktavious Sally that marketing is the life blood of this.

The only reason to defer the capital gain would be to reduce the tax liability in the event someone anticipated a lower tax burden/rate later on.There is also the potential that your purchasing power could be stronger in today's market than it would be in a future market and keeping that money in circulation will benefit your portfolio long term, but that is even more speculative than trying to determine what tax rate you will pay in the future, and the longer you plan to hold the resources before cashing out and paying the taxes the more speculative it is.

Don't spend a bunch of time trying to get blood from a rock. 

She had found out about me through my old lawyer, through the same association I had contacted, and I informed her of my experience and suggested she settle in court, but she wanted blood, so she decided to pursue the charges.

Too rich and competitive for my blood there.