And therein lies the challenge with consumer goods: we’re all different, and products are made for the lowest common denominator (i.e. me!).

Most of us utilize technology to collaborate with our clients all over the globe.Going non local will expose you to a wider pool of expertise in real estate.

@Henri Chow, my partners and I run a very technology-focused (and tech-curious) QI and we tend to get a lot of clients that like good, simple, sleek, automated services. 

I hired contractors before and i was cheated, robbed and lied.

Signing an arms length agreement and lying on it is fraud.

Do you use old-fashioned excel sheets for keeping track of expenses and revenues or do you recommend any other software or technology for this task?

I'm very well Versed with Technology & Social Media.

Here are some examples of the recovery periods from the IRS 996 Publication:5-year Property: Automobiles, qualified technological equipment, office equipment (copiers, calculators, etc.), appliances, carpet, and furniture used for residential real estate.7-year Property: Office furniture and fixtures (desks, filing cabinets, safes)15-year Property: Certain improvements made directly to land or added to it (such as shrubbery, fences, roads, sidewalks, and bridges)There are multiple approaches to cost segregation studies including the Detailed Cost Approach, Detailed Cost Estimate Approach, Survey Approach, Residual Estimation Approach and Sampling Approach.If you feel like you or your business could benefit from a cost segregation study, first speak with your accountant to see if the tax savings outweigh the potential costs.

And then you had to go and start over complicating things and pre-selling how losses are ok, no, there not, a loss is a loss and it's no bueno, don't lie to yourself.

No sane person is going to lend you money for an asset that is functionally a mobile home beyond the value of what they would lend on a mobile home (which is NOT MUCH) . . . this is because all the value of the property (as you see it) lies in the operations and location of the structure, which is not owned and therefore not guaranteed.