I don't understand why the huge spread of time to evict, but that does make the investment extremely risky

You could spread your 250k over 5 different ones to diversify to other markets.

He truly gets mailbox money and it spreads out his tax hit over 3 years instead of all in one year.The best part for me in the deal is the $700/month I pay him, $650 goes to principal buydown and he gets $50 month  in interest.

My understanding of Dealer Status is that if you are flipping on terms (in my case: buy on terms, fix -or not-, then sell on terms) then you lose the ability to be taxed as an installment sale where your gain is spread out over the term of your note.  

Of course there's areas that still work but my main question right now is:People that have spread their investments through Stocks, Real Estate, and Crypto - would you recommend saving my money in a saving account right now (which isn't really growing) or Investing it elsewhere for the time being and when I find the right deal? 

Can i spread the overall negative income or have to take it all in the 2020 year (not looking at CCA)?

But it does spread it out since only a portion of every payment is considered to be gain/profit.  

Large healthy trees aren't the major concern for wildfires spreading to your house.  

Within real estate my strategy would be to split that 200k, or whatever is left, into as much diversity as possible, maybe putting it into a local property and maybe a few partnerships spread across different geographies, asset classes, operators and other factors. 50k can get you into most partnerships and some have even lower barriers to entry. 

We saw value when we purchased and immediately sold it to another investor for a small spread.