I understand this can only be done if you can prove that 51% of your time is being spent on "real estate activities", but I wonder if my position as a property manager would count as a real estate activity for tax purposes? 

According to a point-in-time count conducted in 2021, there were 1,673 individuals experiencing homelessness in Salem.

Also If you’re counting on insurance to be your biggest expense, then you’re definitely way underestimating property taxes.

Would managing tenants in another country count as experience?

IANAL, but I suspect that the Housing Code guide is assuming that you know the Building Code definition: that "habitable space" is 7'+ and that basements that are not habitable must be 6'8"+.So any space <7' is not supposed to be counted as habitable square footage for building code purposes (though there are some exceptions).

Not only do they have a lot of great benefits just for joining (free landlord forms, legal advice, webinars, etc), but they'll send you regular updates on all the pending legislation that affect us landlords (like this one) and they help lobby against (and defeat) the ones that hurt us.  

I won't count on it though ;-)

I don't know anybody I can trust to work by the hour for me without me standing there with them-which would defeat the purpose.I can flip this thing for 6000 now and try to find another deal while I look on weekends and evenings competing against full time investors (its taken me a year to find this one), or I can maximize this deal and make 3600 a year (using 50% rule) on it every year forever or until I decide to flip it for 6000....or more.The fact that there is no mortgage is a huge plus for me to hold the property.

But a rental inspection proposal in my area was defeated because people showed up to protest.

I'm conservative with my projections by nature, so I don't count on that when I buy.