I’ll have the home treated once she leaves and sanitized.

@Garrett Gosselink Treat it as a business.  

Treat that as your education expense.

Have them treat it the same as normal plumbing except no chemicals.What is market value? 

You would have to treat her as any other tenant.

Most of my info I'm basing this on is from this lovely article, if anyone cares:https://www.thetaxadviser.com/issues/2017/mar/navigating-real-estate-professional-rules.htmlSo, I do understand that just making the election as a real estate professional does not necessarily mean that the properties are treated as non-passive, per se.Here's my question:If the properties are treated as non-passive this year, is there any way they can they go back to being passive for the 2020 tax year?

Since credit scoring models treat hard checks on our credit in 14-45 day chunks, is it a good idea to do the refinance on my home as well as pre-qualify for the rental property together so that our credit scores aren't affected too much??

You should look at Columbus, Ohio I would recommend Toledo for houses around 50k and if you treat the tenants well they are perfectly reasonable to deal with.If you want to leverage 50k to get something 200k+ I’d definitely looking at Columbus the population and jobs figures are way better. 

Electrical ended up being around $16,500 for 2 reasons: 1) After getting 4 bids, the best quote was around $14k, so my budgetary estimate was just low to begin with; and 2) while my first electrician did ok, I did ultimately replace him toward the end of the project as I wasn’t happy with his attention to detail, pride of workmanship, and overall way his helper treated my other contractors.

Get a dated receipt that the house was treated for termites.