It could be seen as a reduction in risk to buy a business on property that cannot be sold/leased out from under you, right? 

Thus, a reduction in the Federal Funds Rate does not directly or immediately impact 30-year mortgage rates (slightly oversimplified).

I haven't found a clear path of getting out of this standoff, short of some large population reduction event, billionaires giving up their fortunes or developing nations offering cheaper labor.

Generally mortgage rates trail or ANTICIPATE the interest rate changes as they reflect the other forces that indicate the REASONS they did a reduction in the first place.

The Fed is only proposing 75 basis points in reductions next year IF everything goes according to their plan.

The new builds tend to list the home at a crazy high initial price, then do a price reduction within a few days, so they can show on their marketing that it's $100k off or whatever, just a general marketing/sales technique.

There's a difference between being able to exclude the capital gain and it being a reduction in your AGI.26 USC 1400Z-2: Special rules for capital gains invested in opportunity zonesSection 1A seems reads to me that the gain is excluded and is not a reduction of AGI.

@Michael Ewers - market here is very strange right now for both sales and rentals.What we've seen with sales is either a property sells within one week with multiple offers, or it sits on the market for 3 to 6 months.Rentals have been similar - they either lease within 2 weeks, or sit for 4 to 6 weeks and sometimes are requiring a price reduction to get them moved. 

NVDA one can clearly see big-$ pilling back in, which makes total sense. 

You are likely better off keeping this extra money for reserves and suffering the negative cash flow>I was also banking on more favorable interest rate cutInterest rates have fallen but with your rat being 5.5% I think it is unlikely that a rate reduction will help you any time soon.