Cockroaches are incredibly hard to kill on your own, they can live pretty much anywhere and eat pretty much anything to survive.

If you're not interested, you eat the entire cost and get piece of mind, neighbor goes quiet. 

We can easily save up the money needed without eating rice and beans.I am glad we got feedback on what to do here.

I've never heard of a rodent eating a lease

Eat the elephant ONE bite at a time! 

In addition, building into  the business model an intentional refinance in a short period of time, you are incurring double the financing costs, which eats away at your equity, and also resets your loan amount to potentially a higher amount if you are rolling in closing costs.

A few appliance repairs or non-payment of rent will eat that away.

PM could do the same, but they can eat up your cash flow.

So, if my actual cleaning rate is $385 and I list it as $300 (and eat the difference), is this a potential tax problem down the road?

Do you know that Flips take at least six months to fix up and sell and you are lucky to break even if anything delays the process as you have Monthly Costs that eat into any profit.