Whether you need a ride to the airport or need someone to help lay landscape or rip out a toilet I'd love to shadow you, absorb all that I can, and help you with any projects along the way!

Ceiling fans - thinking about just putting 1 fan in the living room and just lighting in other rooms...are fans expected these days?  

Also, the ceiling joists of the room below may not be strong enough to function as a floor for the attic.Your local city building department probably has some guidelines about stairway widths, emergency fire egress, required electrical outlets, lighting, etc.

I must say I make more money on the "spit and polish" deals (to me that means...carpet, paint, repairs, clean, light stage, sell!).

You're in texas so you don't have to worry about snow, but who's gonna do the landscaping?

Landscaping?

many cities now encourage ADUs  Portlandia for one.. they look at it as a form of affordable housing and of course PDX is all about cramming people into density and now So cal sprawl.I have 3 homes I am building this summer all three will have ADU's above the garage with full kitchenwhen I told the planner at the city I have alley access and I want to put ADU above detached garage you could just see her light up.. its planner nirvana..

My go forward strategy is take these homes that are in good condition, maybe even lightly renovate them and turn them into standard rentals, on the older ones there still may be resale or scrap value I'll take that on a case by case basis and then begin to Vet incoming tenants and establish a "housing code" so to speak going forward on appearance...this will be a multi year strategy as I can't just kick the old homes out and find great new tenants over night but I'm confident over 5 years I will greatly improve the appearance and there for the rent value

It would probably never come to light and will probably not be a problem for you, but it is there.Why not just charge him full rent, pay him a comparable fee for his services and deduct the fee as an expense, and you are in the same place.  

All I can do, in light of the Fair Housing Act, is point clients to some public resources to aid them in researching it themselves.Am I wrong here?