The remaining amount will then be utilized as operating expense to run the business, which forces you to “trim the fat” of your business by facing hard truths of unnecessary expenses.

But if you do that the right way then there is a big fat paper trail to the mortgage fraud.  

Now our goal is to refinance those properties before the end of the year so my banker can get a big fat bonus and I can get out of high interest.   

However, the rule is actually that you must correct the calculations in the year the error was discovered.So advocating a willful blindness to the depreciation during ownership is one of the best ways for your client to end up with "willful disregard" penalties as well as a fat preparer penalty.Run from this person. 

No fat cat in CA with a credit card can out compete you standing on the door stoop of a seller!!

They had asbestos shingles, propane gas for washer/dryer/stove, oil for heat with 50-year-old burner.

@Adriane Boggs a great app that you should checkout is the Burner App, it’s great.

appetite for riskYou can absolutely get a job in RE but keep in mind that it is a cyclic industry where you have to be entrepreneurial to survive downturns, especially times like now when a lot of RE firms are 'trimming the fat' (true in general but even more so in RE)If you're dead set on a W-2 in RE with a good (it's relative, compared to tech, W-2's in RE aren't nearly as exciting) salary and stable, try looking at working for a developer maybe as an analyst.

I'm mostly concerned about a guest inadvertently down cycling it and putting it into economy mode which turns the heat down low, (which I fat-fingered by mistake on our hot tub when we first got it...) 

Which I am neither Too many good deals with lots of fat on the bone for me to get into major rehabs