The brokers, more interested in doing a deal, would normally tell me to cross out what I didn’t like and write in whatever made me comfortable.

What you are writing here is going to open you up to a lot of pitches on areas.

The key one for me is whether it makes sense to drop in some “correction” rates (i.e. negative growth) or if in the end it all evens out long term as @Kerry Baird writes...

Before you get any further, if you haven’t, I would highly recommend writing out your investment goals, your reason for investing, your constraints, etc.

Reminder her that the sooner you can get it rented, the sooner she can be out of her lease.Get it in writing that she wants out of her lease and the end date and hold her to that. 

REPS stands for Real Estate Professional Status—a tax designation that lets real estate investors write off rental losses (like depreciation and expenses) against other income, potentially saving a lot on taxes.

I imagined I needed to generate some sort of statement for him to write-off the interest on the bridge loan and figured I probably needed a statement form to reflect the proceeds from the joint venture flip. 

Here's an article about this topic by one of our speakers, @Natalie Kolodij: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/write-off-bpcon-travel-as...We hope to see you in Cancun! 

I have seen his writings and reviewed the Facebook group.

My point in bringing up the fact he continued paying is because he said to me in response to my letter stating he owes the difference in damages above the security deposit amount that he has nothing to do with her anymore, except it wasn't true because he still would write checks directly to me to cover her rent.2.