Pick up Garrett Sutton's book "Start Your Own Corporation", and Ken McElroy's book, "The ABC's of Real Estate Investing " for starters.

I tell people all the time that "the numbers don't lie, if you argue with them, you'll lose every time".Sometimes the best deals you make, are the ones you don't make.  

An auditor may try to argue that you did not have the intent to hold for rental purposes. 

Are you actually trying to argue that the NOI and purchase price of a property, or the ratio between the two, are irrelevant (with single-family properties)?  

You need to represent me, argue for me, and get me the best result possible.  

Even still, there are those who argue for a mixture of both.

If I wanted a political circle jerk, I'd go to one of those sites and waste my night arguing that crap all night long.

It was funny because IRS was arguing he was should be an investor because he had a big loss, and wrote it off againts his ordinary income, lucky for him he never rented them, because if he had it would have been pretty clear it was an investment not a flip.   

They would argue something like the Asbestos is dangerous, you should have known about it, and therefore you breached by failing to remedy the situation.

If they don't accept, and you try to evict the tenant on different grounds, they may argue that the grounds you are evicting them on are false and you really want them out for others reasons, evidenced by you offering them cash for keys.Keep the offer of cash for keys verbal only.