She’s busy as is and I perform all the real estate related items.

We have lived in our apartment for nearly three years without any issues, but since April, new neighbors moved in upstairs, and the noise has become unbearable.At all hours of the day and night, it sounds like constant walking, furniture screeching, and items being dropped—even until 4 a.m.

There's always so many personal items left behind in the home we have to sort through.

Yes, I would be very happy to receive a copy of your itemized deduction sheet as a sample.  

I do have them sync their bank accounts and credit cards to eliminate human error in entering items, and ask them to avoid putting personal expenses on those accounts.

If your only way of making money from an item is hoping that in the future someone else will pay more than you did, then that is gambling. 

You can do this simply by changing your bedding colors and the colors of accent items like throw pillows and towels. 

I develop a high level scope of work and then make my own estimates for each item.

If so, you can carry back the NOL for at least two years and use it to offset taxable income in those years.

For decades many of America's largest companies have sold items to our Gov at crazy high values.