Just have your contractor rent a dumpster and pay for the cost to trash it and dump it and count it against their depositTwo - holdover tenant, which is when they stay past their lease end date.

In the listing, the house is a 3 bd / 2 ba so would we count the area we live in as another bedroom/ living space or would I’d using the bedroom rule for taxes, just say we rent out all the rooms, writing off 100% ?

Does anyone know what counts toward material participation?

Unfortunately, the hours you spend managing your plumbing company likely wouldn’t count toward real estate professional status (REPS) hours.

I wouldn't count on serious appreciation over the next 5 years or so.

Even if we draw the line between East and West at Greenwich Village, pretty sure that Ireland and Bahamas would count.

It has been a couple days and have not seen an answer.If you own a rental property and you have a signed lease at the minimum of 1+ year, does that rental property mortgage (traditional investment loan) still count against your DTI?

In the past basic zoning pretty much allowed you to rent a house to 2 unrelated people (family/kids obviously don't count as they are related to the adult(s). 

I'm in a space to do some house hacking, and am under the general (unresearched, unless you count years of Zillow watching) opinion that my local rental market is healthy.

Free or discounted stays by friends and family count as "bad" personal use.