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          bankruptcy and listed petitioner as an unsecured creditor.  On              
          May 5, 1994, petitioner was notified by the bankruptcy court that           
          Mr. Rawoof had been discharged from certain of his debts                    
          including that to petitioner.                                               
          Petitioner's Real Estate Activity                                           
               In 1993 petitioner owned 21 separate parcels of residential            
          real property either individually or in partnership with his                
          spouse.  Petitioner owned one other parcel of real estate in                
          partnership with someone other than his spouse.  The properties             
          were usually subject to 1-year or 6-month leases but became                 
          month-to-month upon lapse.                                                  
               Petitioner reported income or loss from his real estate                
          rental activities on Schedule E, Supplemental Income and Loss.              
          On his Forms 1040, U.S. Individual Income Tax Return, for 1992,             
          1993, and 1994, petitioner reported total rental losses of                  
          $62,903, $35,456, and $82,230.1                                             
                                     Discussion                                       
          Petitioner's Money-Lending Activity                                         
               Respondent argues that petitioner was not engaged in the               
          trade or business of lending money and alludes to section 183,              
          Activities Not Engaged In For Profit.  To conclude from the                 
          record in this case that petitioner did not intend to make a                


               1Petitioner reported on Schedule E a total loss of $80,159,            
          but on line 17 of the Form 1040 for 1994 he claimed a rental real           
          estate loss of $82,230.  The discrepancy is unexplained.                    





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