About six times we've treated workers to a professional massage after they've helped us with an enormous project.Ongoing, we often take our construction/trades contractors out to lunch on days when they are working most of the day on one of our properties. 

It often makes it easier to treat your rental as a business, when your property manager takes care of things for you.

I treat it like a business using separate bank and keeping receipts.

In this case, the chicken came first.And you're right about how a good full time agent will eat your lunch, but hopefully within the bounds of ethics and good taste.As a full time (and then some) agent, I'll remind sellers that most part timers tend to treat this profession as a hobby, hoping that while they hold down another full time job, that they'll trip over a couple of deals each year.  

You can treat it like any other lender and have the same structure in place for managing the loan.

I think because I was not disclosed of it, and if it was prescribed after the animal was brought to the property, I should be able to treat it like a "pet" up to the point I was provided documentation.What I was thinking...

., an actual rentor in with a lease agreement is great documentation.Email conversations with your professionals strategizing on how to treat this property long term is also documentation.Getting the property on your Schedule E is pretty important as well.All of these things paint a picture. 

Below are my numbers; I'm not quite sure how my two existing mortgages are treated with the DTI ratio when trying to qualify for a third.

They are expenses, since your tenants pay them...and they should not be treated the same way.

(is past due rent/court ordered judgment treated the same as credit debt?)