@okst1960 having read through your posts and answers by my colleagues @Mike9241 , @Carl and agreeing with them, I am still unsure as to how you propose to liquidate unrealized losses . You are proposing sell/ liquidate your holdings and thus incur and recognize the losses. Then within the same year you propose to buy a residential ( thus incurring good chunk outlay ), actually rent the asset or declare it available for rent and then after a respectable time lapse sell this asset ( thus incurring sales expenses ( real-estate commission etc. ) and transfer tax etc. and still find sufficient gain to offset your losses. Unless you are living in a very hot market, this is impossible.
Suggest you talk to an accountant on how best to reduce your unrealized loss ( if you really have to divest ).
that is my opinion ( and others may disagree on my conservative look at the situation )
