If your manager’s/contractors’/employees’ activity counts towards “activity”, then it is much easier to qualify as a business.2) One rental could be a business all on its own if it was not extremely passive3) Multiple rentals would generally qualify as a business4) Triple net lease properties probably do not constitute a businessBy looking at only Section 162 case law what would the new regulations change?

Since we had multiple accounts and ample cash with them, the manager was able to convince the underwriters to go through with the refinance.  

It's their fault, and the power lies with them to reverse their poor past choices and pick themselves up a bit by their own bootstraps.You're going to tell these new tenants that what's primarily wrong with them is not a legacy of a crime against humanity in the form of three hundred years of black slavery, followed by an unfunded emancipation that turned a huge number of Americans into desperate economic refugees based on the color of their skin, followed by a legacy of organized race hatred, bigotry, pseudoscientific and religious condemnation, and of course overwhelming and widespread intimidation and coercion, followed by a series of failed half-hearted half-measures coupled with an absolute refusal to consider slave reparations and the most lopsided minority levels of poverty and incarceration in the developed world.You're going to explain to these black folks that all that is of secondary importance, and what's REALLY important now is that they get better managing their money so they can hand it over to you more efficiently and you won't have to work so hard to get it.

There are devices to place on water heaters if there are multiple but only one hvac.

Long story short I went through some very difficult times in my early 20s due to a divorce and multiple custody battles.

@Mike Neubauer if the properties have common ownership, you can have multiple entities on a single policy, as well as an Umbrella over the top.  

We just got an offer accepted on a Condo on Kauai and our next move is to purchase a multi family in the Beaverton, OR area.I’m hoping to network and gain valuable insight from this forum as well as provide any personal success and challenge experience from the standpoint of an active duty military member who has purchased and sold multiple homes.

I've been in multiple partnerships, some good, some bad.

I do have to tell you to be careful of certain meet-ups as they can be solely used for attracting new investors who aren't entirely knowledgeable about investing and they can get taken advantage of (I know multiple individuals that have).

To get multiple deals a month its likely going to take a team and a large marketing budget.