That would have eliminated private placement investing in IRAs.Section 138314 said IRA owner cannot invest his or her IRA assets in a corporation, partnership, trust, or estate in which he or she has a 50 percent or greater interest.

I would start with Wikipedia's list of metro areas with a population greater than 1 million and apply each of the following elimination filters.

Since the min downpayment for a 2nd home is 10% and rentals are 20%, that eliminates 1 of the metric already for all 2nd homes/NOO's. 

If you're looking for a 3/2 Tudor, you can quickly eliminate the 2bed/1bath trailer house or the fourplex next to the strip club or the commercial mechanic shop.

I mainly market in a 1-1/2 hour radius of my home and everything is done by me belly-to-belly, including door knocking on non-responsive follow-ups.I’ve been throwing away about 10% of my leads because they’re in war zones.

Hello - I am wondering if there are steps that an HOA can take to eliminate a condotel designation without eliminating the right to short term renters?

I’m hoping to get a higher rate once I switch to Batch Skip Tracing.I guess they found a way to certify customer calls in the Shaken/Stir protocol at the highest possible trust value - virtually eliminating all spam tagging and call blocking.Wondering if that’s what they did.

Action and momentum will eliminate all your fears. 

If you do have to pay AMT, selling your property in an installment sale, rather than a lump sum sale, could eliminate the AMT.  

I tend to agree with @Andrew Syrios, it's not good practice to adhere too tightly to 1% or 2% rules, however I do think they're good for sweeping through a large list of potential properties and eliminating ones that just won't pencil out.