There's been a lot of commercial development (new chain restaurants and strip mall improvements), but it still has some rough blocks.

The taxpayer or a disqualified person may manage the property, supervise improvement of the property, act as a contractor, or otherwise provide services to the EAT with respect to the property.f.

I have made a number of capital project improvements including insulating the entire building, renovating one unit, and installing two new water heaters.

In both cases, generally, most of the cost would be capitalized as either inventories or building/improvements, so you wouldn't need multiple COA. 

Having the option to borrow 500K instead of 400K will improve the number of potential investments which would be helpful in this competitive market.  

Fix vs replace something) and tenant advocacy/satisfaction (eg. run some kind of tenant satisfaction survey and give them a bonus for improvement or meeting a certain target)?

I believe that the original sales price, PLUS any allowed improvements, are what make up the Basis.

This is not about the recent changes in the forums.I get a kick out of the following types of posts.  I've changed the details, to protect the guilty.1.  I'm 8 years old and what should I do to start in Real Estate?2....

@Sing Ho my favorite is to buy under market value with cash (because the seller or property has a loan problem) then brrrr,  I can 5x-20x my improvement cost to value added pretty easily.

The construction would be based upon "draws" to pull down from the loan to finance the improvements.