I don't see your office space idea panning out in your favor if you got called on the carpet. 

Make sure your room is big enough.I don't get a favorable impression from this appraiser, and you should request a different one to come out and appraise your house once you put the window in.Now let's get back to my recent class.

How do people receive rent, in a low/no cost automated fashion.

My offers are looked on more favorably as is and countered a lot less often.

Or blamed me for setting up August as the start date for their payments, though that's what I originally wanted but the tenant wasn't able to get it set up in time.Until I see Cozy operating in a stable fashion for a few months in a row, I'm not going to be recommending it to any other tenants.

DTI without charging rent = Y/XDTI with 1500 rent = (Y +1500)/(X + 1500)Plug in some numbers and you will see your DTI is lower without charging yourself rent, and lower DTI is more favorable when getting a loan.

Do yourself a favor and buy the book FLIP.

We have one that cash flows nicely, but after 14 years has appreciated very little.  4 plexes, on the other hand, are viewed more favorably in our area and something I would consider myself.  

I'm going to have to do some more research about reverse exchanges to see if it would work in our favor.

This is going to sound funny, given your comment about fleas & smells, but the the colors look fairly close to currently fashionable shades.