There is no reason for the tax payers to financially support it when about 99% of them wish the mailers were not coming in the mail.I know the information comes from the CAD.

Tax payer money at work, good to know all the crime has been taken care of so they can now focus on direct mail campaigns that follow the law.

It says that “taxpayers should consider the appropriateness of treating a rental activity as a trade or business…where the taxpayer does not comply with the information return filing requirements."

However the IRS issues final regulations in 2013 which make it beneficial for the taxpayer to keep the two activities separate.

The real estate bubble in 2007/2008 was primarily based on government-induced loans that were then backed by government via taxpayer. 

To qualify as a real estate professional, a taxpayer must meet both of the following criteria:Taxpayers perform more than 50% of services in real property trades or businesses in which they materially participate.

Funding it is where most taxpayers overlook.

I may be the most unlucky real estate investor here, and yet, I’ve still had to make the mortgage, insurance, and tax payments on a building that has needed to wait until my baby was more living than dying, wait until I caught up with everything else that I had to put aside to tend to that baby. 

Passive activity losses are those losses from activities in which the taxpayer doesn't materially participate.

The ROI sucks, but at least I can sell and get my money back (but there might be a big tax payment due because of recapture, but the property will surely cash-flow after 20 years without the mortgage).