Specific to you as a real estate agent, track all miles you drive showing homes and write that off in Sch C P2 box 44A (yes I have that memorized) to the greatest extent your CPA tells you it's lawful to do -- this is one of those magic write-offs that minimizes your tax burden while having zero impact on mortgage qualifying income.

I had used lower priced handyman in the past, at half the price, but sometimes does a terrible job.I used the same plumber for nearly 30 years and he charges me a fixed price, usually around $100.00/visit plus parts for small jobs.

It would be a quit claim deed for the half of the title apparently. 

Nobody wants half $1 million house on a busy road.

I’m an hour and half away it is upper 80’s but not 100 like out west .

@Nick Colvill over half of our clients qualify as an RE pro and most of them are from BP.

I myself bought a much bigger house, 5200 sq ft, and the renter in the basement covers just a bit more than half my mortgage.

I determined the rent by averaging results within 1.0 miles as reported on rentometer.com (excluding the really highest).

If there is drugs related activity, I would send all the units a notice that the cops are vigilant and on a certain day there will random checks, that will chase half of the peddlers out.2.

Bet you could keep the best half or 3rd at least while still maximizing rents.