Depending on your Japanese level, the most important thing for this may be finding one who speaks English (I communicate with my guy in Japanese).  

You'd likely run into IRS "personal use" rules that may limit how much of the expenses you can deduct and/or the timing of when those deductions could be realized.See:  https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc41A CPA could explain how it would really work in plain English :)EDIT:  If you had 12 of them, lived in each one for 30 days/year, and rented each out at fair market rent for  300+ days per year, sounds like you'd be golden!

We moved office locations from a single-family house in the suburbs of Martinez, GA to an iconic building on 1918 Central Avenue, a former Pure Oil gas station designed to look like an English Tudor cottage.

The hunter/jumper folks tend to do either a house or a hotel and don't really do the camping thing as much as the western folks.Some resources to check out that help provide more context - I highly recommend the Chronicle of the Horse forums (english focused, has forums like BP) and Go HorseShow (western focused, no forums, just articles).

I messaged the Dad today (he doesn't speak much English, so communication is harder) and his message suggested that the daughter had told him, it was done and she didn't have to pay anymore. 

Please excuse grammar and vocabulary errors, English is my second language.  

FYI: Im dyslexic so my English is average at best!!

“Enough” may most powerful word in the English language, when it comes to investing.There’s always someone buying their 10th, 100th, or 1000th unit.

The employer has to translate into English any employment contract.

This was something the owner, who is not very fluent in English, had misunderstood and was not aware of.