You still have to treat for the spores, but it will not grow back.  

A PM sends someone for maintenance and that's valuable info on how the house is being treated.

Any good HML will be happy to share the contact info of borrowers so you can see how easy the process was and how well they treated the investor.Can you share a recent closing document or HUD?

I'm not sure why that metric has held true but it still applies, the properties that perform well above that ratio are the owners that treat their STR like a business.

While getting treated badly at work is a bummer I just see a lot of sour grapes in the post and I am not sure this is the forum for it. 

However, California treats rental income as passive regardless of REP status, so these benefits won’t apply at the state level.This post does not create a CPA-Client relationship.

I don't mean to be a "stick in the mud", but successful SubTo is treated very differently than a bank loan investment property.I've done Subject To for a very long time, been sued over some pretty ridiculous accusations and have had to sue to clear up title.

I've heard people in this forum suggest that you treat them all like animals.

Being a real estate professional allows you to treat the income as non-passive, allowing higher high income tax payers to pay less in taxes.

If you had identified the property, the cost and the travel cost would have been added to the basis of the property and depreciated.These initial investigatory costs are treated differently for flipping and rentals.1) Flipping: The travel cost to investigate will be treated as a business cost and deducted as an ordinary travel cost.