To those of us whom have worked in government for nearly three decades, this is recognized as "progress."

@Steve Babiak  I wondered how that worked.. and I appreciate you straightening me out on that one.the reason this came to the front of my brain is I had a meeting with my accountant this week.as you know I am selling off all my rentals and going to cash.. these were Go zone purchases so the strategy at the time was tax savings when I bought them which worked.. but it looks like I am going to have to recognize over 100k in recapture... and be taxed on that.. and because the homes did not go up in value and I had minimum downs.. and you deduct sales cost there just was not enough cash coming out of these to marry to a 1031 that would replace a million bucks in debt... so your kind of stuck..

I've both invited them to events I've hosted or taken clients to some of their newly built homes all with the intention that they constantly see and recognize my face and eventually know my name. 

My comment on the fiat money system was not just to focus on precious metals as much as to recognize that our money system is not infallible and history has shown money systems such as ours becoming worthless and not too far in the past.

I have never lost a listing or buyer due to not having a nationally recognized brokerage name and in our town most people prefer to support non-franchise small businesses.

Your biggest and costliest mistake was not recognizing that prorated rents and security deposits were not credited to you at closing.

SF is now owned by 12 landlords:https://apple.news/AdosJGXzYRH...Wall Street’s set on institutionalizing the American Dreamhttps://www.economist.com/fina...And the same’s happening in other markets like STR faster than most small investors can recognize it. 

It’s amazing how many landlords don’t understand this I recognize that dog owners are not a protected class (at least not in my state!).  

The law does recognize that anyone who for years does not use their property, does nothing to maintain it, does not pay taxes and cannot be located through their contact info and addresses of record -has implicitly abandoned their real estate.

The IRS does not recognize managing rental properties reported on Schedule E as a business.