This can cause a real cash crunch if a flipper gets caught unawares: You may have a $35,000 tax bill due on capital gains of $100,000, for example, but only be receiving a fraction of that amount in the first year in an installment sale.To avoid the problem, consider a rent-to-own deal, in which title is transferred at the end of the process, and not at the beginning.Avoiding an Unwanted Designation as a DealerThere’s no set-in-stone criteria the IRS uses to designate just who is a dealer and who is a real estate investor.

Right, it can create a situation where we can end up with a unwanted tenant.

Get a property in one of your names and that will set you up to avoid unwanted headaches should anything go wrong between you two (hopefully not!). 

Northern California as it is a great area for buying/selling unwanted rural land.

I work in a shelter where hundreds od beautiful UNWANTED Dogs are killed each week. 

You don’t want to end up with an unwanted tenant.The alternative would be a double market rent, paid in advance for 3 months, applied to the purchase if the closing occurs within “X” days of the scheduled closing.

Northern Wisconsin is full of fantastic “unwanted” rural land deals.

It brushes up with some rough areas but given its strong Italian Heritage, the town does a good job of keeping the unwanted out. 

How do you make unwanted land, wanted?  

I really like the idea of taking forgotten and unwanted properties and turning them into something livable and affordable.