This explains why your taxable income was zeroed out on Form 1040, even if the standard deduction wasn’t utilized.

Assuming you don’t meet the 500 hour test, you will likely need to document the time of others spent working on your property.In addition, you need to have guests at your property as well.Until you are 100% sure you can utilize the short term rental loophole, I’d wait to do the cost segregation study.

If you're planning on utilizing a self-showing model with cameras you'll need to make sure you disclose to prospective tenants viewing the property that there are cameras on premise.At scale, we've coordinated 160,000+ on-demand/self showings with smart lockboxes over the past 5 almost 6 years with very few issues.

If your credit is decent then I would utilize your cash as leverage to leverage:1.

I'm used to paying a 10% management fee in other markets that covers the costs of paying utilities, etc., but RHR charges $10 per bill payment, a fee for renewing rental registration, fuel surcharges for service calls, etc.

The thinking on this is that although the buyer utilizes what appears to be a purchase contract, it is actually being used as a purchase OPTION, and as such an option contract which clarifies that the purchaser is actually obtaining an option to buy should be used.   

Out of curisosity, are you considering utility reimbursement portion as "Owner making money?" 

Of course, after that brief interaction, I'm pretty sure I just become lost in a sea of other text messages.My question is do any of you see a way to utilize a strategy like this?  

When your tax professional prepares your 990t they will utilize the Cost Seg to minimize the UDFI tax. 

My neighbor is renting her Jr.attached ADU: 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 825sq -furnished- $2500/mo (utilities incl./ current tenant renting for 6mo).LOFTI have plenty of land for detached ADU /their own yard, driveway & entry with the goal of a 1 bedroom/1 full bathroom downstairs & a bedroom/powder room upstairs <so 1 & 1/4 bath>...