I’m very happy to hear your optimism for appreciation and that you’re seeing transplants.

It wasn't the messiest thing I've seen, but still required clean up on my end which the clients weren't happy about at all.The third client is a self employed hair dresser and she compained of poor communication, inability to understand what they wanted form her and complete confusion over their payroll directions.For the price paid, I'd say the results were mediocre at best.

If they are a dentist, chiropractor, electrician, baker, hair salon or anything that requires a building, buy and sell or lease to them. 

I find it hard to believe the IRS is interested in splitting this “hair” in a punitive way, as a new business entity starting out.

Not sure about the context here... a W-2 and 6 rentals might seem steep... but were there a bunch of hair on your rentals?

Follow the grey-haired people with life experience and real wealth instead of the flashy YouTubers making money off suckers. 

My youngest child had a heart transplant as an infant. 

My wife/business partner is kind of the MTR expert between us, and she's always saying, you don't care who your tenant is -- traveling nurse, displaced homeowner due to remodeling or home damage, remote worker, transplant wanting to figure out the city, etc. -- you care that you get a good tenant; that's all.

You can split hairs all you want whether its a "business," but what you are doing doesn't raise itself to being an active income source. 

I use excel for a lot of things, but to image having to look at a list of 200 and try to manually sift through it to find the correct criteria for a property would have me pulling out the little hair I have left.