@Eamonn McElroyThoughts on this statement:“While depreciation not claimed, under allowed vs allowable, would not be subject to recapture taxes, the unclaimed depreciation would reduce the basis in the property”.I have a CCH or Bradford article on this subject I can link later, but cannot also remember if this was specific to a home office depreciation deduction.Economically, why someone would not claim depreciation is beyond me.

If your market is a much of millennial's looking to buy houses next to a bunch of tech company head quarters or big branch offices, then ya it might be worth it, heck you might even get to charge more.

All of these work great as they coincide with investing & need physical offices which are of course housed in my commercial buildings. 

(coupled with bad loans) 
Also if interest rates move up (which i think will happen when the new president comes in to office) that will also push down home prices, but in general now is a a great time to buy i think.

One of the agents in my office who signed up the day after i did has really clicked with me and we talk a lot and actually realistically help one another. 

Wider tenant base- singles, roommates, young family, someone who wants an office.

Purely financially speaking, money sitting in a house unused is dead equity, the same as if you had a bunch of workers that you hired sitting around doing nothing instead of making you more money.

Go to the local county or city zoning office and look at the site plans submitted.

If you hit a dead end, call the Attorney General's Office or State's Attorney (not sure what they call it in NJ), and they will very quickly know if this is a scam, because if it is, you are not the first one to call in.

We're doing our second flip, and I'm considering buying our own worker's comp policy for workers on our project who we know don't have worker's comp (unlicensed/uninsured painters, carpenters etc).