I personally used Jon McGraw in the past and he is extremely knowledgeable in the field. 

They have received extremely nominal amounts of relief on over 20 houses they’ve researched and comped to get an abatement.

The $450K will be returned to me as payback of my loan to the intermediary, without trigger any capital gain taxes, right?

I just don't see you being able to do a whole lot to allow you to sell it quickly outside of lowering your price to something extremely compelling.  

@Travis Boyd Outside of instances where FHA or other extremely advantageous financing options exist I am a proponent of the LLC for investment real estate although the liability piece is overstated.

Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge are both extremely strong right now , with most people overpaying in the years that you mentioned and simply not KNOWING OR CARING  how to properly run a top notch Air BNB. 

We invest for long term buy and hold in good areas B+Due to extreme highly demanding W2 jobs we are looking for credible FULLY vertically integrated turnkey companies to partner with.

Portland has gone a step further, imposing requirements almost guaranteed to trigger unintended violations.

When it rains or hails a metal roof that's is open to the living area is extremely loud.

And now presented with the risk scenario they go into attack mode.Yeah, back to start, it looks to me as Marco is pulling triggers that were always there, going to plan Y, Z etc...