Linda Weygant I can hear every single step and can distinguish who's walking (married couple with two kids).

Unless you're taking losses where this gets real for some of us is college financial aid, where business assets get treated differently from investments.To be a real estate professional, a taxpayer must provide more than one-half of his or her total personal services in real property trades or businesses in which he or she materially participates and perform more than 750 hours of services during the tax year in real property trades or businesses.

Any tax paying entity can do a 1031 exchange.  

They have a job loss, or are being transferred or have bought a second house and can't afford both, or are in a divorce, or have inherited a house and can't make the payments or are downsizing or are upsizing or are going into assisted living or have been given a new military assignment, or own a house and have gotten married and don't need two houses or are a burned out landlord (they tried "Buy & Hold" and they don't like that type of investment) or they don't like the heat in the summer and want to move or they don't like the cold in the winter and want to move or they miss their family "back home" and it goes on and on.

About MeHey everyone my name is Mike I am 32  Married and Live in San Diego CA..I have always wanted to own allot of real estate but just thought it was something out of reach for someone like me( middle class construction worker) I almost bought a second home a couple years ago after being pre approved for another traditional loan but never pursued a property due to the fear of being too in debt, man am I kicking my self now.

Since the kids were with Memaw and Poppy, we really got to savor our trip down memory lane.Ashley and I not only started our married life there, it’s also where we started our real estate life.

My grandfather is married, but separated.

From my uneducated perspective, it seemed that the lenders would see that we're married and use both of our income, credit scores and existing debts to decide the available loan amount regardless of who applies for it.

The IRS was absolutely no help because they refused to provide any documents containing the original taxpayers name due to privacy laws.

Since getting married to a California/ Minnesota Girl in Rockport MA (01966) we lived at my parents and saved a downpayment for our Multi.