[A significant participation activity is generally a trade or business activity (other than a rental activity) that the taxpayer participates in for more than 100 hours during the year but does not materially participate (under any of the material participation tests other than this test).]  

It is a trade off; if you increase the rent too much the tenant will leave and you will need to decide if that is a good thing or a bad thing; it can be either depending on what you want.

How to hire out specific trades for specific jobs around the house.

I have a plan of going to a trade school, and getting a certificate for industrial maintenance in order to make a base, and be financially stable and in doing that be able to have money to support this path into real estate.

Could be anything: accounting, engineer, law, maybe medicine, even trades (they make good to great money).You’ll see many questions and also advertisemtns/books on how to invest in real estate with little or no money or income...

For me, I understand that it's not liquid but also know that I don't have to trade on the market but also can compound investments if the business plan called for an opportunity to refinance and move it into another asset.Again, those are my reasons.

Six years later I had a hard time trying to sell that house on a short sale for 200k with nothing wrong with it whatsoever.

It seems im trading cashflow for equity.

Perfect our experience.Oversupply of trades.

Are you using this as a stair step to trade up into something larger, or is this going to sit in your portfolio 10+ years?