Real estate, by default, is passive and the primary way to avoid the passive loss rules is to qualify as a real estate professional.Full-time employees and non-real estate business owners cannot qualify as a real estate professional (aka REPS status) because one of the tests is to spend more time in real estate than anything else (and it’s unlikely that you can convince the IRS or Tax Court that you spent more time in RE than your day job).

If banks controlled all this business and did away with the broker model and like what I experienced the lender was a bank employee and was on salary not commish.. docs are prepped by the bank ( on my commercial loans that is free no charge NO JUNK Fees at all just appraisal and 1/2 a point to maybe 1 point. this is a stumbling block for owner occ especially first time buyers who dont have money for closing costs and generally need the seller to contribute you know I see it all the time on my starter homes that I finance for flippers.. virtually everyone has seller assist on it to pay for all the junk fee's and brokers fees.. its getting paid somewhere and that just makes it harder for those buying homes to live in ..  

Generally your hours working at BP as a W-2 employee would not be part of RE professional hours unfortunately.For those who are RE professionals, gain on sale of rental real estate is still capital gains and still avoids self employment taxes just the same for those tho are not REPS so there is no downside to being a REP in the example you provided Scott. 

On the document 14, one of her employee got paid 20k in Apr 20, one single month.

You would have to convince the county recording offices, who are run by career employees who in some instances still are using fax machines and rotary dial phones. 

From what I have seen, it is more common for a litigation claim to arise from a partnership relationship, employee relationship, or other business relationship than a claim by a tenant against a property owner.

@Ori Skloot  If you are paying your employees $ 27 an hour , with withholdings , workmans comp , and the other related costs , they are costing you around  $ 38.00 to $ 42.00 an hour The true cost of your labor was closer to the $ 9000 mark . 

Here’s a quick way to evaluate:Calculate NOI: Subtract expenses from gross rent (e.g., $550 x 8 units x 12 months).Determine Cap Rate: Research similar multi-family properties in your area to find the typical cap rate.Estimate Value: Divide NOI by the cap rate.

, your 60 units of ownership conservatively translates to somewhere around 3.5MM gross.

@Jason Porto generally speaking, I begin with around $10k in reserves for a new unit, and contribute around 11% of gross rent each month towards the reserve account (repairs, vacancy, capex).