I don't want to lose trust or fail to help my future mentor.

I'd like to see all the future booking so I have idea of what to expect.

Lastly, don’t forget about the tax benefits, you can often deduct mortgage interest, repairs, and other expenses.If you need help navigating any part of the process, from financing future investments to managing your rental, feel free to reach out. 

My brother recently installed Lifeproof Dusk Cherry and I thought it looked really good and plan on using it in future rentals. 

Sell the house and invest in stocks.

That way, if your friends move out in the future, you can still get rental income without having to find a new roommate to live with you 

One applicant mentioned their desired move-in date in 9 months in the future but that move-in date is way too far from our earliest move-in date (2 months from now). 

Unless they have a builder inn mind and then I can get their builder approved with the bank for that build and future builds.

No, as I mentioned I have LTR rentals but it's becoming difficult to keep buying these when I don't get any immediate tax benefits from them, I've bought two in the last 2 years and had to put out a bunch of money to get them ready, etc and not one cent of that is a writeoff for me until years in the future when I actually have passive profit, meanwhile I live in a high tax, high COL state.

I would consider investing in stocks and index funds to be passive.