Remodel I have left for one person as this gave me the best price and I didn't have to worry about making appointments with different contractors and baby sitting them.   

Probably not every self-employed person is able to do this, but I would always offer a recent statement from all my accounts to show that I had ample funds in reserve to pay rent even if my business went belly up.As a self-employed guy myself, I would happily rent to another self-employed person as long as they proved they had a legitimate business because, in many cases, the self-employed are far more resilient financially than many folks with traditional jobs.Think about it.

I've made a spreadsheet which combines data from these sources:https://www.rawson.co.za/transfer-cost-calculatorhttp://www.sars.gov.za/Tax-Rates/Income-Tax/Pages/...http://www.sars.gov.za/TaxTypes/PIT/Pages/Tax-on-r...http://www.sars.gov.za/TaxTypes/PIT/Pages/Examples...http://www.globalpropertyguide.com/Africa/South-Af...http://www.standardbank.co.za/standardbank/Persona...Rental income is added to any existing income you have, and any expenses incurred in trying to get that rental income are deductible, including the interest portion of the bond, excluding the costs of transfers and setting up the bond.I'm hoping I'm not calculating something correctly!

I agree with @Christopher Abele that you really want someone here that can view properties in person. A

Or, are you saying the bundle should appraise for 1.1 m AS IS today? 

@Okeoma M. , As an owner of rental property in Bishop Arts, I can say that we have had mixed luck with rent prices and tenant quality over the 7+ years.

If your job relies at least in part on a public persona on BP you probably want to stop appearing like a scumbag.

The deductions you are entitled to take do not depend on if you are a W-2 employee or a real estate professional.The only difference between a real estate professional and a non-real estate professional is the limitation of utilizing passive losses on your return.Furthermore, rental deductions as part of the business are separate from the decision to take itemize/standard deduction.Now if the properties are persona, you would need the items to be in excess of $24,000(if filing joint) for you to benefit from taking the itemized deduction.

To onlookers it seemed like I had it all worked out I was curating the persona of a happy and successful investor.

If I hop and and see that a question has been sufficiently answered or the idea or process I was going to add is similar to something already said, I just give that person a vote and call it good.