Having the tenant that has truly had a bad break, cancer, or blew out the knee, and knowing you will eventually have to boot them because they have not been able to pay rent for the last 2 months (.

Unless you elect special tax treatment LLCs are totally ignored for taxes.The good news is that you can carry forward these losses.  

Unless you elect special tax treatment an LLC will have no effect on your taxes at all.  

The tax treatment of the IRA is what it is.  

Issuing a W-2 and withholding the necessary payroll taxes is the recommended treatment as per IRS guidance.

My question regards the treatment of my 1031 exchange expenses.

In 2013 I lost my step mother(mom) to cancer she left behind many assets and a bit of money for my family and I.

A farmer's failure to cultivate his or her land or a quarry owner's failure to take stone from his or her quarry, for example, does not mean that either person has abandoned interest in the property.A person's intention to abandon his or her property may be established by express language to that effect or it may be implied from the circumstances surrounding the owner's treatment of the property, such as leaving it unguarded in a place easily accessible to the public.

@Mike ReynoldsWhen you convert an IRA from tax-deferred (traditional) tax treatment to Roth status, the amount converted is added as income for that year.  

Even a foundation dedicated to finding a cure for cancer.