I have two tenants that don’t seem to get along. They live in a building with two apartments, one up and one down. They share a patio downstairs. Tenant A, the downstairs tenant, has already given his notice and is le...

He was one of a number of parties that lost a large civil lawsuit resulting in a huge judgement.

We had only an oral agreement on each party’s duties, and unfortunately, things have turned sour between them.

Adding a party to the lease should be handled as a new tenant would be.

Then here is the important part I set the listing price my self (a weekend of research will do) or if you trust the agent ask them for  (CMA report) then once I agree to a listing price we list the property at set price.. then since they said they will "add value " to me then offered a 5% to 10% max  additional bonus for any dollar amount they get me over my set listing price, if they want the full 10% they must fully pay for staging  then selves and be available at all times I ask them to do so. 

I hope that's true because Block-head software instructions for 4797 is nuts.IRS: "If you used the home for business, you may have touse Form 4797 to report the sale of the business part". I

3) In long term SFR buy and hold I haven't been able to figure out how to structure a deal that works for both parties in a partnership.

All the confusion comes from the fact that there are so many different parties that have a say, as to what is a "bedroom".

Unless their brokerage allows for an intermediary relationship and then the agent represents both sides and can only provide facts to each party no opinions or additional information.

The only thing I can think of is getting rid of the depreciation rule, but that's just an educated guess on my part. I