This means you must be feeding other people—such as prospective clients, business associates, or future potential clients—for the primary purpose of benefiting your business.If you do own a business and you are buying meals for these purposes, only the cost of the food and beverages is deductible.

Most of the time, food bloggers also crossover into travel content of the local areas.

On the gutter question, some vendors will include service annually or biannually with certain install packages, so that could be something to consider.

New to RE investing , can I claim taxes fees on RE mentor/coaching, including Real-Estate software system package as RE start up Business cost? 

@Marcus GriffinTypically as part of a modification the bank will have a “shock package” which includes information and forms to be completed by the borrowerOn those forms there are questions like will they or do they occupy the property, there income, do they plan on keeping th home.This is equivalent to lying on a bank application which is most likely considered fraud Not providing legal advice but this is definitely a very slippery slope you are getting involved in.

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Usually because they're in a rural area and there is lower upside for the lender when they package and sell the loans.

Cut free of your "golden handcuffs" with the minimal interest rates on these properties and sell them all (or the biggest headache properties) and do a 1031 exchange into a bigger property or package of multi families where the cash flow is better, numbers make sense, and you can streamline property maintenance and management rather than having 6 different single family homes. 

Common expenses would be utility mandated SCADA upgrades for system isolation, metering packages, engineering & testing, etc.

If you can't cook food in it, it's not a "unit."