The most important elements are your LIST (people with equity, absentee owners, etc.) and your messaging.

Physical has finite limitations, two being the periodic table of elements and the impact of time.

You kind of loose that element of surprise don't you?

He/She may or may not be the point man to major decisions with the portfolio, the systems in place allow them to make the choice how much involvement they have in the portfolio management.Now, how do you move between the ranks?

Until the year 2000, the United States was ranked 3d in economic freedom, an important component of economic growth according to any economist I view as honest.

They are owned by google and it raises your rank.

Well I guess you could look at this with another analogy.I am a third degree black belt fixing to test for fourth soon.I love helping all the students below me and even higher ranks learn from me and I also learn from the higher ranks and lower ranks that have taken other styles before.I could say "I will not share anything with this person that is a white belt because one day they will be better than me".I choose not to do that.You can't live in fear of what others are doing or YOU THINK they will do in the future.It really isn't about that at least to me.Now do you spend hours of productive time teaching them everything for free??

Btw, as an internet marketer, I'd think you'd have realized by now that BiggerPockets is highly ranked by search engines. 

I will share my juiciest secrets how to rank within months!

So you take some element of risk relying upon it unless you go to the time effort and expense of requesting a ruling in your own capacity.One final caveat, it sounds as if this property would only be partially eligible for home exclusion treatment (since apparently only part of it was your princ res) which may create a number of other potentially unfavorable tax issues not to mention the usual issues of having a corporation (even an S Corporation) owning the property.