Your tenant will have belongings stolen and it will break your heart because the police won't even show up. 

If you say they are, you are just proving that it is hard to find consistency in CPAs.Actually you may be right because in my opinion  if the expenses (property manager fees, inspection cost for example) belong to 2017, so the income should even though the property manager still holds the money.As I always did all my accounting, I am doing as well the Malta part, and I think I know what to do.

Not to mention if you are using an agent it won't be long before they fire you and you need to spend more time finding a new agent who may or may not be better than your current agent. 

But they do have an attachment to the leases describing how important it is, the fact that landlord insurance does not cover their personal belongings etc.

If you ever want to meet up and grab a drink let me know.

So glad you're plugged into the Bigger Pockets podcast - that was a huge source of education for me when I first started.I don't know a lot about the Omaha market, but familiar with reno projects and buy and hold rentals - happy to help with a few of your "million questions" along the way ;) It won't be long and you'll be the one answering questions in the forums!

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Or, since the home belongs to her until her death, would rent need to be reported?

It used to be contractors were more than happy to offer free and accuarte cost estimate but it would not be long  before they figured out people were just using them and had no intention of ever hiring them and of course this cost in time and some labor adds up and people need to pay their bills so , no  more free estimates, make sense?

Though I'd like to settle down back in those parts so maybe it won't be long distance forever.