Property that qualifies for 1031 treatment is property you've purchased with the intent of holding for productive investment use.

Fleas, that took several treatment to get rid of. 

General advice is to read the forum, see who you get value from, jot down names, and reach out.Depending on whether or not the property(ies) in question were commercial, as opposed to residential, you may be able to take advantage of special HVAC treatment under the newly beefed up S179 [IRC Sec 179(e)(2)(B)].

The IRS is likely to address this unintentional consequence, especially since the entire Sch C income qualifies for 20% - which creates a disparity in treatment.

You place property in service in a rental activity when it is ready and available for a specific use in that activity.For scenario two, assuming the anti-abuse rules are met, your accounting procedures clearly allow for this treatment, Sec 263A doesn't come into play, sales taxes and other misc expenses don't throw any one improvement over $2,500, then I'd take the stance you can expense each of those under DMSH.

LLC does not change anything as far as tax treatment of losses.

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When you do it this way you start holding on to properties long enough that they qualify for 1031 treatment. 

My husband has been at his job for 14 months and has received a regular quarterly bonus since he started.  His offer letter states that his bonus is targeted at 10% of his salary and he has been receiving roughly that...

Joe has a headache that ends up being brain cancer that he gets treatment for and it goes into remission.