Sounds like a smart move with your 1031 into larger scale and higher quality ... sometimes you play offense, and sometimes you play defense.

I think it is great for "nuisance claims," but never want to find myself in the position of getting hit with a law suit and having my only line of defense disappear.

But suddenly something in my head sparked and I been thinking about real estate for the past 3 months and went to defensive mode on money management and stayed conservative as much as possible.

Apparently, screwing up the records so badly that nobody can decipher them is a valid defensive strategy for the Government.

Alternatively if you have more than 5 employees, the income is treated as active income and taxed a lot less.Obviously a corporation acts as a liability defense. 

This is both an offensive and a defensive tactic.

The tenant would have a defense if he had a reasonable expectation of privacy.

Be prepared for a further action required result and soil drilling/sampling.I have been involved with several contaminated properties over the years and the primary reason you want to get a thorough environmental review is to provide an "innocent landowner" defense.

Whether they do a convincing enough job to avoid detection or question of impropriety or the ability to mount a good defense in the case of a prosecution is a different question. 

@Devin James if you're on the offensive side of the ball you better know how to read a defense or you're getting hammered at the line.