1. Start-up expenses for a business are to create and investigate the business . See here. A rental property requires no investigation or research and would not qualify for start up expenses as defined by the IRS.
2. An active participant would change the amount of loss allowed from the $25,000 cap for passive participants but would not change the law regarding start up costs.
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