Qualification as a real estate professional does not automatically make rental losses nonpassive. Material participation, grouping, documentation, and the taxpayer’s actual activities still control the result.
Reasonable compensation is a fact-based professional determination that should be supported, documented, and revisited as the shareholder’s role and the business change.
A profitable Schedule C can be a planning trigger. It is not, by itself, a reason to elect S corporation status. The analysis should integrate reasonable compensation, QBI, retirement plans, benefits, state tax, administration, financing, basis, and eventual exit.
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