Here you will likely face fewer tenant issues around payments, behavior, vacancies, and maintenance.

You need to "train" them on acceptable behavior and this isn't one!

We know buyers tend to be irrational creatures and the industry tries its best to make sense out of the behavior which does make some of it difficult.

You might read the forums and look more to those posters who give better advice, have displayed expertise in those areas you're interested in.

So the income will be considered the same as if it was on your Schedule E of your tax return (form # where all royalities, rental, and passive income activities are displayed).Your Welcome

I have a somewhat similar situation happening to me -- but with an affluent person's college-age kid whose rent is being paid by the affluent parent.What bothers me most here is that this type of behavior is being passed on to the kid as 'acceptable'.In the past I've made comparisons to my college kid tenants' behavior and my low-rent tenants' behavior.

If banks behave in a sensible manner, the real estate market can return to more normal behavior and prices will return to an orderly increase, based upon increased demand from a growing population.Wild speculation has damaged the real estate business, and that speculation was fueled by too much easy money.

Is there a study, or anecdotal evidence or evidence from experience that can link the bad behavior above with something identifiable before renting to the person?

This impact is usually relatively very marginal since even if you were to take a bank loan you have to pay back with after tax dollars.401k loan is inferior to HELOC where you can potentially deduct interest upto 100K of credit used.The biggest behavior change from 401k plan borrowers is that most of them stop contributing same amount as before as they also have to pay back loan interest.

There have been numerous studies done that all confirm ignoring troll behavior does NOT make it go away.