There are no wash sale rules when it comes to crypto.

I've seen others wash out due to a lack of interest on the part of the mentor.Most people say that a new commercial agent should have the financial backing to go at least a full year before closing their first deal.

I figured that buying debt that I have direct control over and I know is solvent is a good place to start.

> exploring if I can get a duplex/triplex etc couple hours away from here and have it managed by a management company, they might charge 10% or rent , and the cashflow might not be more than couple hundred dollars a month. at least less vacancy rate here but if any major repair comes up, it may wash all earnings.

do they just consider it a wash?

If you are already making boatloads of money and it won't have any effect (or a wash effect, i.e. you get out of your current car for the same payment/principal in another), it might make sense. 

In court, one of the ways the plaintiff identified me was "he was driving that Silver Mercedes of his when he came by".

My housekeeper washes all the linens and makes all the beds.

I ended up not going forward not only because all of the above, but also because the house needed a lot of work, the barn's issues that were going to bite me in the *** in time, and I found out that it was on the flood plain below an antique dam/mill pond, on a small river that has a history of flooding and washing out bridges and blowing out dams.

Lots of deferred maintenance, not major things, but stained asphalt shingles, gutters need replaced, brick building need power washed, a couple of the fascia and soffit boards need replaced, all trim needs painting, ugly amateur ceiling repair where leak occurred, missing drop ceiling tiles in bathroom, no landscaping.