If you provide any kind of substantial services like catering, car service, etc you will change you tax situation and no longer can file under Schedule E.

It takes a couple of calls to schedule, then they pay the invoice.

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. 

So I am at the mercy of that person for basically EVERYTHING.I am still waiting on that payoff amount 9 days later and am up against a clock where they have scheduled the home for sale at auction come March.

Her reasoning is that she put it in her schedule and she could have accepted other cleaning jobs. 

I have no social sphere or contacts family or friends in Oregon (I don’t know anyone besides my fiancée).Goals: continue to have flexible schedule while enjoying what I do (selling real estate) and making good money.

Meet with a local banker & schedule a time to talk with a mortgage broker, they'll give you at least a baseline of what kind of down payment options and rates are out there.After that, if you're still wanting to research more creative options, do some looking into seller financing (a very hot topic with good, and bad, advice out there), look into private lenders, and commercial financing options.If you're wanting to live in 1/4 of your quadplex, then conventional residential loans may in fact be your best option as you can purchase that with a fannie/freddy loan with very low down, and use up to 75% of the income from the property toward your own income. 

Closings that have been scheduled have been moved several times because they do not cooperate.

I do have a house that is 4:1, but it works due to peoples schedules and mostly male occupants.Padsplit manages the member acquisition and rent collection and I do the rest. 

Okay, so someone takes the time to organize a meeting, set up a time and place to have it, schedules a speaker and you are surprised when they try to sell something?