Selling your properties with owner financing would allow you to defer the tax and only pay it as the payments come in.  

Just because its a VA loan shouldn't / doens't change much...VA loans remember allow for 100% financing. 

Would this be something that could hurt the legal protection between personal and business? 

If we then have another meeting that we are pre signed up  and have paid for which is on Wednesday, the expenses that my wife and I incur on Tuesday are deductible because it is considered a work day since it falls in between 2 separate days of meetings that are directly related to our business.  

They should always be under control of the owner, not allowed to roam free, not allowed to bark, can't destroy the property, etc.

Aside from COVID hurting our bookings in Mar through early June, business really picked back up this summer.

They aren't as busy as some other shopping centers in the area.

Dustin is in business so you could expect some upsell.

You may be able to get away with 10% down if you have multiple fix and flips/holds completed in the last 36 months and the LTARV allows for it. 

There's a huge active church on the block that looks beautiful but isn't too busy so there's plenty of parking most days and there's a big elementary school on the next block so again, plenty of parking and it looks nice.