EIG (Economic Innovation Group) was the political and intellectual driver behind the Opportunity Zone concept.

Hope this sparks some intellectual and justifiable direction as I know this is a passionate topic!

That spirit of honest intellectual inquiry and back & forth discussion is sadly waning.I understand why, as a custodian or TPA, one would give the conservative, belt & suspenders advice. 

Many alternatives exist (interest from savings accounts and bonds, dividends from publicly-traded and privately-owned businesses, rents from real estate, royalties from intellectual property).

If you want to be intellectually complete and steer away from motivated reasoning you'll need to lay out the counter positions to all of your assumptions. 

But it is an intellectual discussion I hope.

In the are you are in in Nebraska, look at land for sale in the area and get some contractors to quote you construction costs on a brand new duplex.If nothing else, it's an interesting intellectual exercise.

If you believe your tenants to be intellectually challenged to the point that they can not manage the recycle system you have a problem.

If they don't answer my questions, I know they have not read the ad and are just clicking and "tire kicking" or they lack the intellectual focus for me to have any business relationship with them.   

Than there is the intellectual laziness factor, some quotes require special time consuming underwriting vs standand key strokes.