Keep all the hard systems on a 6 month service schedule.

Anyway back to regularly scheduled program !!   

If your kid has an event or activity at school in the middle of the week at 1pm, no problem, you don't have to miss it because you're stuck at work, the work can be scheduled around your life, not the other way around. 

Currently also a firefighter but I have more flexibility in my schedule than most  would. 

Other asset classes aren't so the depreciation schedule may not be as quick/beneficial.2) And it is even possible to find deals that are what I call "super-shielders" and which not only shield all the distributions in the investment but have extra to use over on other real estate investments that are throwing off income. 3) Unless you're doing a 1031 exchange  at the end or similar tax structure to defer taxes, you will have to *pay back* all that depreciation benefit at the end (on sale...which for you is in 5 years)  via depreciation recapture.

Does Bigger Pockets have a clever scheduling function on it at all?! 

Often times, if title notices there is no obvious access, they will note that as an exception on Schedule B. 

Make sure everyone knows a cleaning schedule, expectation for common areas, how are you splitting utilities, guest policy, etc. 

Hi @Leon Jamison,I can recommend my contractor. my project was $420K, 7months, funded through 203K. we went slightly over schedule (10months),mainly due to a few failed/ repeat inspections, but we were able ton finish under budget.TBH, Im actually doing a second multi family reno project in the heights, New York Ave with the same contractor beginning March 2025.Anyways, you're bound to have issues when working with any contractor.

What do you file for this "income overseas," do you file SChedule C self employed on your personal 1040 tax returns ?