So, make sure the iPostal1 qualifies.FYI: when you do set up an LLC, do NOT use your address or list yourself as the agent for the LLC - defeats the goal of anonymity!

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.