I believe so, DT will leave the United States like a busted Atlantic City Casino.

In Atlantic County, there's more and more talks about jobs coming back into AC due to Hard Rock Casino and Ocean Resorts (previously Revel) opening this year.

By the way, what's your opinion on the Everett Real Estate prices now that the casino is coming in?

Especially with only 15% down.I've been seeing 10 year interest rates creeping higher and higher above 5% over the last few weeks.   10-year Treasury is at 2.77% today, so even 5.10% is only ~230bps.   30 year amort is also becoming increasingly scarce on smaller deals.  

I've been told there are legal battles between the casinos and AirBnB and that could last quite a while before settled.

@Lauren Keen I am not sure one way or the other if you can take the deduction since I don't have all the facts, but I can tell you that the real estate professional designation is not a requirement to take the home office deduction with respect to a rental activity.There is nothing in §280A (the home office section in the tax code) that mentions being a real estate professional is required in order to take the home office deduction for your rental activity.However, in addition to the rules regarding the space itself, there is the requirement that the taxpayer's rental activities rise to the level of a trade or business, which the Treasury has conveniently never defined for us.But it seems that rental activities would rise to the level of a trade or business if the activities are substantial, regular, and continuous.However, there is a case, Curphey v.

The SAFEST ROI is probably a 5 or 10 year US Treasury bond... but that's not exciting, nor does it pay a lot. 

We focus primarily on real estate lending and most banks are going to price their loans at a spread over the 5yr or 10 yr treasury.

Ya the tax benefits seem pretty straightforward, it sounds like Treasury still needs to provide guidelines on funds and how they get certified (or something along those lines).

Probably not the return shareholders are hoping for, since that's only about a $3/share return, which is a pretty paltry 15% over a 10-year holding period, based on current stock price of about $20/share--so if there was no operating income, this wouldn't be a great stock investment.There is definitely some risk baked into their model, which is why they have to pay bondholders a better rate of return than they would get investing in a Treasury Note where your principal is guaranteed by the US Government, or putting the money into CDs where it is guaranteed by FDIC.