You pay the deductible ($75 in my case) and they send out who they want.

Can I take a tax deduction for 5% of the total home purchase price or any portion of the price paid?

Fix the hater water issue, if her fault deduct any cost from her deposit.

Since you have to return security deposits within 21 days of the tenant vacating, you can certainly get stuck with storage or disposal fees that you can't deduct from the deposit and aren't worth going to court over. 

Yes, you can keep as much deposit as is required to find a replacement tenant.Since you are trying to arrange new tenants, you are already mitigating damages.So if you only manage to find tenants to move in August 15, you can deduct half a month of rent from the deposit.I guess some people think you can just sit back and force them to keep paying rent.

Without capital gains, you're entitled to deduct $3,000 a year indefinitely for capital losses.

Passive losses of up to 25k can be deducted against other ordinary income in you meet active participation rental requirement and if your AGI is below 150k.

The home office deduction is still alllowable.

From there I *think* there is a 1K deduction (kind of like a standard deduction on personal taxes) which leaves you 2K taxed at about 35%, so you still have $1400 cash on cash or about 3%.

Loans are generally tax deductible.