Georgia makes it really simple to set up on your own and it saves you a ton of money! 

If not, I recommend commissioning one and only taking their counsel on tax-specific questions.I have a list I keep updated and recommend through our REI bookkeeping firm if you don't currently have one.They can walk you through exactly what you can and cannot write off during these trips and what you need to document in order to write things off.It's not necessarily a simple "yes" or "no".

My next question is a simple one: through circumstance, we will almost certainly have real estate holdings in two states (Georgia and likely Pennsylvania).

You can usually find some events by doing a simple google search.

Really simple things that should have been easily taken care of by customer service but I could not get them to understand the problem I was encountering and it would take days to get a response.

He's just like "I make $300K per year from my medical profession job, I'm going to make my life simple and aggressively pay down the mortgage, then do it one more time on another property, and that's it - early retirement." 

My Real Estate attorney always gives me advice and allows me to ask simple questions all the time.

You must learn to communicate with possible residents, ethically and legally screen them, juggle the calendar, create leases and collect rent.

There also could be malicious attachments or links that work to steal your login information or infect your computer.Here are some ways that you can protect yourself and your clients.Stay up-to-date on IRS Communications: If you receive any communication from the IRS, ensure it is coming through a verifiable channel.

(Could be process, communication, or a number of other things).Now the thing I'll mention that you might want to chat with someone about is that many folks don't take the Sec. 121 exclusion into account for situations like yours.