Other conferences offer some educational materials that are helpful to a complete newbie, but they are mostly for networking.

They have great educational material and fantastic networking.

I've also sent my promo material to the H.R. dept of many companies that do work in my town. 

Home offices should be depreciated over 39 years, not 27.5 years.Alternatively you can take the $5/sq ft safe harbor if the home office is less than 300 sq ft (most are), but I've found that the actual expenses method almost always produces a materially higher home office deduction and is generally the way to go if the taxpayer is okay with 1250 gain from depreciation later down the road.

These laws seem to come up as a response to increasing rents, which tends to be driven more by markets with byzantine zoning rules and a lack of new inventory coming online.

I dry their houses out or remove mold damaged and fire damaged materials, then we work together to restore their homes to almost brand new.

That just isn't going to happen in any scenario.It doesn't matter if it ends up being a potential short sale either because, referring back to the first paragraph, you aren't going to take a property "subject to" with an active bankruptcy.Bank can call a note for any material breach of the covenants of the loan, if they aren't cured.

It's just a matter of being able to hold on long enough to see that appreciation materialize. 

I had to supplement with other materials when it came to taking the test but it was convenient!

Normally, a roof is considered an integral part of the structure and would be subject to depreciation over 27.5 years or about 3.6% ($3,600) of the total project cost per year.But whenever I have a roof done I ask my roofer to itemize the cost of labor and disposal associated with tearing off the old roof and dumping the worn out material.