This may potentially require less administrative items like minutes/bylaws.

You should consider joining a team that offers administrative support for part time agents.  

During the previous administration and the withdrawal from Iraq the Marine Corps was cut down (179-185k range).

The house can only be sold by the administrator of the estate.

I have seen on this website answers both ways regarding this (the site administrator saying leave it in Sch A, and his colleague (also a enrolled agent) advising that it can be written off in Sch E, but that there are certain restrictions mainly -- you must have passive activity gains where the deductions are covered (no passive activity loss carry over allowed.

The restaurant expenses are getting too high that now they're dilemma is whether to refinance the HELOC, do a modification on it  for financial hardship , or sell the house to pay off CENLAR (loan administrator) and put the difference as a down payment somewhere else.    

I earned a BS in Business Administration from UNCW.

@John UnderwoodWhile a quit claim is a valid deed, title companies in Texas are reluctant to provide title insurance except with administrative transfers such as husband/wife in divorce or owner to an LLCTherefore, as @Jim Cummings stated a quit claim deed in Texas an acceptable form of transfer in Texas

This is actually one of the main points in the sale speech of many SDIRA custodians and administrators.

We looked into several scenarios: making a few loans at 10% vs one per year vs. buying a rental property (with and without leverage) and the administrator fees will eat 40-60% of net annual income.