Of course, you need to find a few good (e-)books to read/listen to.

@Ryan E. - Interesting. 

FIrst, I personally rent about 2 hours away from a property my mom lives in and pays the mortgage payment on though I don’t technically claim it as a rental property (No Schedule E).

@Bill E. it will have some affect for sure.

Send me a message in my e-mail, we can talk better, you can find it in my profile!!

Or, like @Randy E. specifically state you'll leave the appliance but take no responsibility for it and you will remove it if there is a problem.

We have a bunch of local networking groups you can join - I see you live in Lexington, my firm is actually doing a rehab #Meetup at one of our projects in Concord  April 3, Tuesday night - e-mail us for details, or I suppose I can post on this thread if anyone else wants to join. 

The adjusted basis is equal to original cost + improvements - Depreciation taken on your return.You can look at your prior year tax returns to see how much basis was taken.See Schedule E - Line 18 - Depreciation Expense or Depletion>You may be able to exclude all/portion of the sale of the house if you lived in the house for 2 out of the last 5 years.I had to spend a few months fixing up the house before I sold it.

@Arthur Voskanyan If you have rental income (Schedule E), it's added to your W-2 income to "put you in whatever bracket."

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