That being said, we might see continued focus on business-friendly policies, particularly in sectors like real estate and construction.There’s been discussion in the past about indexing capital gains taxes to inflation or lowering capital gains tax rates further.

Consider yourself very lucky and continue to follow up with them.

OSU enrollment continues to grow and it ranks in the top 10 in the nation for highest enrollment to lack of housing ratio in the nation.

1) If you continue waiting for the "right time ”, you’ll always be waiting.2) Your current job doesn't care about you.

Continued softening?

Here you would continue to find borrowers and fund loans with your own money.

That’s a good plan. 1031 is a bit complicated but you can continue to roll cost segregation benefits forward  

I will continue to research the topic as you suggested and hopefully continue to learn more about it.

If you catch these at the pre-foreclosure stage as slow pays or initially in default all the better as the bank has less in collection expense.You can still work out a discount but even buying at the payoff it can be profitable depending on the property value.You can practically force a lender to sell as it can fully indemnify them as a full payoff as demanded, continuing with a foreclosure becomes a rather vengeful act by the bank to punish a borrower, they don't want to go there.

Most important to me is equity, to continue my growth.