Nice work and if you declare your rental income on your taxes and get the property leased when you are ready to move to the next house you should be able to cancel out your debt on this one and qualify for a another one! 

Not sure what it takes to declare a 55 & older community, but I'm not sure if you can do that for 1 duplex. 

If I had no voice in the management or operation of the rental activity, then I would definitely view the rental activity as a passive activity.Personally, I will continue to treat the operating income or loss from my rental activity as passive income or loss, but, I can't quite get my head into declaring a loss on the sale of my rental property as an ordinary loss rather than a capital loss.   

When the tenant needs 'accommodation', there's a process for resolving their need, and basically, they have to declare that need an contractually pay for all changes.

They aren't paying their bills and the president has threatened the use of declaring a National State of Emergency to force the wall to be built.

Check your governing documents, particularly the Declaration which should spell out whose responsibility they are.

Here are some things we have learned which may be helpful to other management companies:State Farm will name management companies as additional insured on the declaration pages and they will name management companies on condo policies as well as single-family homes and townhouses.

The guy declared bankruptcy and we never saw a dime for the work we did.Forget hiring a lawyer at first.

If Buyer fails to make application as specified above, then Seller may declare Buyer in default of this Agreement by tendering written notice of that election to Buyer at any time prior to Buyer making application consistent with the terms set forth above.

And to then declare you do this without even reading my post, is a form of arrogant-ignorance I do not know how to best define.