By sending a check, in many states, if the tenant cashes the check they are de facto agreeing with your damage assessment and will have little ground to dispute your accounting.  

Tasty Trade is a brokerage that has allowed IRA LLCs/Trusts to open brokerage accounts. 

They paired me up with a member service advisor for 60 days, who checks in on you once a week and helps find content for you and keeps you accountable.

One thing to think about is if the tenants will be able to acquire accounts with the oil company.

Here’s what I do with my rentals:I either have tenants split the utility bills or include a clause in the lease that states if the gas or water bill exceeds a specific amount ($X), the tenant will be responsible for the overage, provided there are no leaks or other infrastructure issues contributing to the high usage.To determine this $X amount:Water: I take the highest water bill I’ve had over the past year (excluding periods where leaks occurred) and add about $15 to account for small fluctuations or potential increases.Gas: For gas, I calculate the median bill during the winter (when usage is highest) and the median bill in the summer (when usage is typically lowest).

I dont their account reps change pretty frequently..

I just subscribed to Pro, but I seem to have 2 different accounts: one for this part of the site and another for the store.

Account Closed I have not had any updates or heard anything.

We purchased a property in early October and are placing it in service this week (mid November).We had intended to run a cost segregation study and try to accelerate depreciation which we can deduct against our W2 (assuming material participation).However, we have been reading through the IRS guidelines (eg publication 946 on Property Depreciation) and there seems to be the concept of "short year" which would mean that we can only deduct ~1.5/12 of a year's worth of depreciation in 2024.Is this correct or are there any different rules for STRs specifically?

Night Before the Exam dot com is a good state study test if they have it for your state.To be clear though, the majority of what you learn in the class is not used by residential real estate agents in practice.