Come on folks it is not hard to wash your dishes after each meal. 

I'm sure for his sake (and the sake of his listeners), there's more context to this than just this information.If there isn't additional context, I suppose I could credit his advice for one thing ---> it's a good way to earn yourself free housing, three square meals a day, and one hour of exercise at a free gym.

No travelling to a hotel, paying three days (or more) accommodations and meals then sitting in banquet hall for 9 or 10 hours for three days only to be sold something that costs more than an Italian super-car.

I got an hours worth of legal advice for the cost of a modest meal.

We've also been eating out almost every meal in an effort not to make the place smell or get dirty

I'll bet that thing can really chef up some meals!

There is no way that the cost of an extra value meal at Mcdonalds should be dictating a yes or no on an investment.

Less vacancy means healthier bottom line, and less maintenance. 

If passive investors don't setup a business or LLC, then does that mean they can't deduct the business expenses such as attending education seminars, trips to visit properties, meal etc. on such trips etc.

Note: If you go to the same meeting each month, you can do detail tracking for a month, and can use same detail to estimate expense for rest of the year.( If nothing changed)2) Meals when traveling away from home - 50% is deductible unless the meal is provided to the general public (like Open houses) than it is 100% deductible.