But most clients think that we handle things in 15 minutes when in reality a boundryline agreement with a neighbor may cost, 24 miles, 3 trips at 30 minutes each, a bottle of Makers Mark, playing catch with the neighbors BermesHuskLabraSpaniel and a 15 minute consult with the clients attorney who has the form.

If your attorney makes a special trip just to do your case and sits and waits while the regular guys get first hearings you will pay through the nose.Dave DonnettMike HaasForest HeisPS: Hamilton County strictly enforces the rule that if the property is in an LLC or the eviction is brought in the name of a management company, a lwyer must appear.

Too many arcane rent control regulations to trip you up.

Took two trips down 2 months apart.

@Michael Plaks is spot on - character wise, 1099-R income falls in the same "bucket" as a W-2 wage would be, thus to offset this income with real estate losses, it follows the exact same pathway (ST rental with material participation or REP status with traditional rentals), but since you don't have all your time sucked up with a W-2 job, you have much greater flexibility to hit those related hours thresholds under those paths as well.No idea if he's taking clients - but if you are looking for local(ish) and qualified in TX, Michael is also likely a great one to reach out to.

There we will be gathering to share our experience so no one else gets fooled by this slimey character.

I'm sure I'd have a different attitude if I just got back from a trip in January.

I would think with enough "proof" you could deduct trips/masterminds and all of that This does not work the same as blending into speeding traffic.

He likes that when he can check on all his rentals in one trip. 

(full disclosure-I knew the guy, or know him, he's not dead just gone from the auctions and haven't talked to him in a few years, but he was always nice to me and I don't have a clue as to the validity of the federal charges against him, but he always treated me decently and I've got nothing bad to say about him and I know other landlords who've been demonized and slurred as slumlords when I think they simply bit off more than they can chew, while other real slumlords seem to operate for years, as long as they don't get too big) He used to kind of dominate those auctions and maybe that was a good thing, as I'm sure there's a whole cast of characters who've filed that void.Thing is, ANY property under $100k, maybe even under $150k or $200k will certainly have multiple bidders, there are a LOT of people like me when I'm looking, who have the subscription to the sheriff's sales info reports from the Daily Reporter ($600/year and you get the results emailed to you in an Excel spreadsheet on Tues, next weeks auctions emailed on Thurs) and another good indicator is I'm on an email list for one of the firms (actually out of Chicago) which handles a tiny, tiny fraction of the cases and I've looked at the "cc list" or whatever you'd call it if ALL the addresses that email is sent to and there are HUNDREDS of them on there and this is for I think Johnson Blumberg, who many weeks don't even have any cases in MKE or Waukesha Cty.