I would love to start real estate investing, and I am thinking of house-hacking a 2-bedroom condo in Miami as there seems to be a good amount of units delivering in the Brickell area.

You will have to go and leave any unused amount you got in your BatchLeads Wallet.

Snow removal is typically dependent on the amount of snow.  

This credit amounts to $1,666 per month, with the monthly rent set at $3,300.From an accounting perspective, should the $1,666 per month be treated as a liability (deferred credit) and excluded from income, or should it be recognized as income and then applied as a credit at closing?

When it corrects there are typically just a greater amount of opportunity especially when there was a large run up to the correction by those who did not follow traditional risk mitigation measures when investing.

I haven't done a 1031 exchange, but may in the near future and the small amount of research I have done on it seems to indicate that some qualified intermediaries only do the intermediary task (hold your money while you close on the new deal) and some try to do other tasks as well, like facilitate you finding the next deal, etc. 

We do a pretty decent amount of land acquisition but we target specifically retail center points in rural areas.  

This will determine the depreciation amount.

Some leases state "payable before rent", but in either case that makes the amount due with the next rent payment.

Sometimes they find a renter that will sign a lease for a high amount only for the renter to default leaving the owner eating the vacancy.