I currently am house hacking with the rent by the room strategy. My lease for the tenants states that only they are allowed to live there full time. If their girlfriend sleeps at the house every night of the month is ...

this is currently my dilemma, trying to figure out estimate of monthly expenses without an office.

Even though I don’t...Anybody have advice for this dilemma?

College and cubicles are not the true paths to wealth, health, or happiness. 

Keep in mind I live in Canada, so health care is very different plus I live simply, so with $3-4K/month I'd be more than fine. 

My wife works in facility health care and is a nursing assistant with containment facility certification in a top-ten hospital system in the USA.Standard infectious disease isolation protocols call for N95 disposable respirators.

If the animal is a nuisance, the landlord may remove the animal through legal means.While you cannot charge a “pet” fee because a ESA is not considered a pet, you can charge for damages caused by the ESA.Further, the ESA certificate must be from a licensed MENTAL HEALTH doctor or facility that includes the patient’s diagnosis (Which is weird to me since one cannot inquire about the health condition of a person who requires an actual service animal, and HIPAA regs prevent such disclosures.) 

My dilemma is that I am beginning my journey in the field of RE with little to no money.

All,Just opening up our first long-term rental property in KCMO, and got a letter out-of-the-blue from the KC Health Department, saying they think the property is being used as a rental, and therefore needs a permit (plus fees and inspections, of course), per City Ordinance 180248:  http://cityclerk.kcmo.org/LiveWeb/Documents/Document.aspx?

It's something though that your accountant can explain and probably will account for on the form 8824 to record the 1031.If the deficit goes the other direction you're really better off keeping that away from the exchange because they're really current expenses that can provide you current year deductions rather than getting capitalized with the property.It's a dilemma because you'd be technically correct taking the cash difference.