Start with market rent and multiply:85% for lineal descendants and ancestors, up to 2 generations90% for brothers and sisters 95% for 2nd and 3rd cousins (2% extra if partially removed)125% for monster-in-law (whoops, mean mother-in law), unless you actually like her and value your marriage, then drop to 50% and count yourself ahead.

Multiply that by 100 business meals a year for a self employed person, and you get the idea.

We buy detached single family homes, but you can definitely go with a town-home if that's what you'd prefer- you'd want to focus on large square footage, high bedroom count, and consider avoiding luxury features that add cost like rooftop decks unless they're important to you.Typically house hacks operate similar to a home office deduction - take your eligible, deductible expenses and multiply them by the portion of the house that is a rental (for example, if you buy a 4 bedroom town-home and live in one bedroom you could deduct approximately 75% of eligible expenses).

So do I take $34,560 times the tax rates and multiply by 2, or is it just that one single payment, and Zillow was high on the dollar amount estimate?

To find the value that you will pay transfer tax on you basically need to use formula whichever is grater either amount you pay+other consideration or county valuation multiplied by CLR. 

The buyer will need to figure the total amount of depreciation the subject property has incurred over the hold period and multiply the value by a 25% tax rate.Hope this helps!

Also, do I then just take that figure (the "gain") and multiply that by the percentage of my tax bracket (federal + state) to see what the capital gains tax would be?

@Alex Perez  I'm currently doing all the mailing myself (printing, folding, stuffing, etc), with each piece of mail averaging around 70 cents (multiply by how much you will be sending).

I know this person will allow us to multiply our efficiency big time and allow me to enjoy a little more free time.

I mean, how else would you determine the exact square footage of a room to estimate materials and labor than to measure it with a tape and multiply length times width?