The Family owned non commercial enterprise election or FONCE has been considered for repeal year after year and as you discovered is really for families they own a rental house not a larger multi family. 

Enterprise is the best but something is better than nothing so below is the enterprise link and QB online.

Have you sought out mission-based community development lenders who are interested in green enterprises?

This info may help. https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonynitti/2015/11/24/irs-taxpayers-may-immediately-deduct-the-purchase-of-assets-costing-less-than-2500/#4171b1f93be7"De Minimis Safe Harbor: Under IRS Regulation Section 1.263(a)-1(f), landlords can deduct a wide variety of low-cost personal property items used in their real estate enterprise–even if the item would normally be considered an improvement rather than a repair.

Much better than the indexes.Also, one way Fund Managers choose to add particular stocks into their portfolio is by analyzing their future cash flows and projecting their Enterprise Value to their free cash flow.When I worked for the large financial institutions, while I wasn't a Fund Manager, I created the software that they used to analyze the individual stocks.

I have much more than that from 2 decades of experience.I currently have 3 firms.1) An IT Software firm that develops Software for Enterprise Wide Corporations2) A Property Management firm that takes care of all my existing properties3) A new Brokerage FirmI have a NY Broker friend of mine who can walk me through all the Process, but I want to first do my own research since he is a bit busy.So going the route of working for another Brokerage Firm won't be an option I would be considering.At worse, I will hire an Associate Broker or an Office Managing Broker to Manage and set up the appropriate Business Processes.Then I'll have my Software company come in and develop all the necessary IT (Websites, MLS Access, etc.) projects that a full blown Brokerage need these days.

The classic test for an investment contract : a) an investment of money, b) in a common enterprise, c) with an expectation of profits, d) based solely on the efforts of the promoter. 

It works great out of the box, but you can also customize the crap out of it so you can use it as a newbie or scale it to a multi-million dollar enterprise.

If the former, reach out to Bellwether Enterprise. 

So learning the business side was a necessity.One of the things I was doing was developing a system which would report Stock Recommendations to the Public (at the time it was called "First Call") based on the spreadsheets created by the Stock Analysts.I had to learn a lot of the calculations they were using, particularly things like Enterprise Value to EBITDA, Projected Free Cash Flows, Projected Revenues and Expenses, etc.