If your family qualifies, you can offset your active income with your real estate losses.

FB groups can be great but if they aren't very active it's difficult. 

My partner is a realtor who services the Piedmont area and would love to assist you on your journey.

Please let me know if this is a need for you and we can schedule a time to discuss services. 

Then when you pay your mortgage every month to your mortgage servicer there is a field you can add extra every month for your escrow. that way the next year your escrow account will not have to double up to catch up. 

What digging I've done has been in valuing professional services practices (same issue: owner does the "labor", has client loyalty, etc.) as well as medical practices (patients loyal to a doctor more than a physical address).  

I look forward to being an active member of this community and growing alongside you all.

I've found that CPAs that focus on a niche area such as real estate rather than offering general services to everyone are typically much more knowledgeable about real estate tax incentives.

You'd want to report this activity on Sch C instead since it's a different type of business activity.

.- Set your standard and don't give up, in general, in the markets that I am active, you have some interest, but people that qualify is minimum, in most cases, I would say that what Jon said about 70%-80% is accurate in my markets too.One important thing that I found is that meeting them before you do the final decision is very important, I had the opportunity to have a competing tenants one and when meeting them it makes life much easier seeing if they will care or not for your house.