So you take some element of risk relying upon it unless you go to the time effort and expense of requesting a ruling in your own capacity.One final caveat, it sounds as if this property would only be partially eligible for home exclusion treatment (since apparently only part of it was your princ res) which may create a number of other potentially unfavorable tax issues not to mention the usual issues of having a corporation (even an S Corporation) owning the property.

Given the preferential treatment Cook County gives tenants/foreclosed defendants, I want to say that there's probably a line in the ordinance that trumps the BK filing.I do know that checking that box would not have allowed us to avoid evicting the supplemental tenants (the foreclosed defendants' adult son and his family were also living at the property).

The City of Baltimore has an open database where you can visualize the data and download a data set of more than 16,000 vacant buildings. 

@Hannah Leas I'm sorry to say, but it looks like not only did you not qualify for the full exclusion of the gain on your primary home (Pub 523) and that you did not hold it long enough for it to qualify for long term gain tax treatment.  

Many times these have been condoed so that they are actually real estate and can be eligible for 1031 treatment.  

I hope the treatment goes well for her.

(even if factory treatment seems pretty good these days)

Account ClosedWhile a 401k or an IRA can invest in real estate, the gains have to flow back to the 401k or IRA since these retirement accounts that are afforded favorable tax treatment.

I don't mind Asheville, but don't really have a desire to come back here on a regular basis to check on my properties once I finish my treatments and move away.After I'd mostly decided on Raleigh, I found the blog post about the best places for rentals these days and that basically cemented my idea since Raleigh was listed. 

Care more about not using a too-hard mortar and damaging the brick, more than finding a perfect visual match.