Other than changing lightbulbs, mowing the grass, and cleaning, everything must be done by a licensed and insured contractor.I found this one out on my first personal rental - got fined & red tagged because I was doing the demo myself.

Second point is, that you need line items as many as many draws per trade, that way, they could not escape and it is easy for you to "cut losses" when needed (ie for my foundation job, i had draws for slab demo, digging, rebar, pouring, finishing, cleanup and punchlist. 5 draws, for how much?

I'd be happy to meet with you to show a quick Demo and do a quick 101 training to help you gain a strong understanding of how things work.

You can’t be both.I had a squatter in a house in PDX that I had a demo permit on.. they moved once we started tearing the walls down.. that worked. 

In the screen shot below you will see where I further Customized this form to show me the *Year it was built*Square Feet* When the new furnace was installed*When a New Water Heater was installed*New Carpeting(All these screenshots are demo files not my real files)Now we get to Customize our Templates. 

One of our clients who regularly invests in real estate said that it took them less than 2 hours to analyze 4 investment properties.... a task that they said used to take them 1 to 2 days to complete.This program is a cash-flow management tool... and acts like a "Financial GPS" system... looking for the quickest way to zero debt, paying the least amount of interest.The ONLY thing we get asked from people who actually look at the DEMO version of the program and take the time to learn what this is about is...Couldn't I just do this myself?

if I pay my brother or young cousins $10/hr for demo or cleaning work, can I write that off the same way I would for any other contractor?

If you don't have RE experience, I'd suggest you get a contractor to look at it and see which would be better, demo or repair it.

So far all the properties I've come across with pools have been big demo projects.

Second Chance (http://www.secondchanceinc.org/) is a non-profit (501(c)3) out of Baltimore that sells used materials in their store and performs "deconstruction" of houses prior to demo.