Verified by the USPS as vacant and comes with county tax payer information and tax billing address.   

Those laws are there because we as tax payers are insuring the loan.

The Seller is not interested if there is immediate tax payment.   

Once a taxpayer meets the REP status, do they need to materially participate in each property?

In others, you're buying the tax receivable for a certain year; you pay the taxes to the city/county in place of the taxpayer, and now the taxpayer owes you instead of the gov't.

Commissioner one of the rental activities included in the taxpayer's grouping election was like an STR, which removed the activity from the definition of a rental activity under Sec. 469. 

Maybe they will see you as low risk for audit and suggest option 1 or 2 to not attract attention.One approach to get the contractor to provide their social security number is tell them you are going to 1099 them and tell the IRS they refused to provide their tax payer ID number.

This is what our CPA says:"The rental real estate loss allowance is a federal tax deduction available to taxpayers who own and rent property in the U.S.

Although I recommend speaking with a CPA first before making any decision.You can keep her as dependent as long as the salary paid is not more than the income of the taxpayer.

The W-9 is a standard IRS form used to request the taxpayer identification number (TIN) and legal name of the entity, which is essential for tax reporting purposes.