Seeing fellow advisors receive brass plaques and special award dinners for cheating clients did.

., in a real property trade or business) if:1) more than one-half of the personal services you provided during the year were performed in a real property trade or business in which you materially participated; AND2) the number of hours in which you materially participated in this real property trade or business was more than 750 hours; AND3) you must materially participate in each rental real estate activity unless you filed an election to group all rental real estate activities as one (and materially participate in that activity).A "real property trade or business" means any real property development, redevelopment, construction, reconstruction, acquisition, conversion, or rental operation, management, leasing, or brokerage trade or business.Personal services performed as an employee are not treated as being performed in a real property trade or business unless you are a more than 5% owner of the trade or business.For joint return purposes, the eligibility requirements are considered met if either you or your spouse separately satisfy the requirements.

(There were complex relationships that had to be set up to be legal that few besides our clients ever bothered to set up.)

We started to help family out due to inability to sell their homes in this market and we have added quite a few other clients by word of mouth.

A few issues are taking some time to resolve and I am not sure if they will completely satisfy inspector.

I've found it can be difficult to focus on your own investment goals if you're constantly taking care of clients, (I tend to be a workaholic) so I try to take only low-maintenance clients and don't advertise myself much.

I know of lenders on the west coast that are greatly satisfied with 10%.

Mailers to Divorce Attorneys who can refer clients to us 13.

Just a satisfied customer with their very unique service.

But my clients are far more vocal about their response and conversion rates than I am.