Spend an hour or two with one and ask him or her to explain the lending process in NY as well as the relevant state and federal laws.

If it was common in the cruise industry for passengers to hide or not disclose relevant info like they get roaring drunk every day and ruin the experience for other passengers and the captain contracted with the passenger to pull over after seeing how they act to renegotiate the contract and the passenger had the right to say no and start the cruise back up immediately under the same terms and the captain had the right to walk away while having to pay to send the passenger home or fight over that cost with the passenger if the passenger feels the captain is being unreasonable and risk losing all of their time and expenses up to that point- then the analogy works. 

Even though you are a newer investor, your background and relevant experience look great.

Yes, you are right that the definition of “abandonment” that I quoted came from online. http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Abandonment The quote is not from any Washington State statute.I have, however, read as many Washington State statutes on the subject as I could find, and I’ve read the relevant case law on those statutes as well. 

I'm not convinced that 3D printers have much relevance for mainstream realtors, but I think that they will be very disruptive in the next 10 years or so, particularly in third world countries.

I suspect you will find thousands of threads and blogs that are relevant.

The sad thing is that you have all the politicians and government agencies who squeeze themselves in the middle of all these, try to justify their relevancy, and think they know better than all of us.  

He states that the filing requirements would simply require annotating the tax return with a statement and reference to the relevant tax treaty when filing the tax return. 

To be honest, it usually isn't something I necessarily hadn't learned before, but just sitting there for the mastermind forced me to re-consider various aspects (particularly my relevance score).

Quality/value of car should be somewhat relevant to income IMO.