It seems like commercial broker sends only their lising (off-market) in e-mail so they can get deserved commission both sides. so is it ok to connected with more than one broker ?

Practically, people just deduct the cost in their schedule E as overhead.

He did not at any point notify us that we were not fulfilling our obligation of maintaining the lawn properly so even if he did send over a crew multiple times to maintain it (which living there we saw no evidence of this), can he truly just pass that expense through to the tenants? 

The Trustee is the proper signatory.

They use noon as an expiration in case a new tenant begins tenancy the following day to have enough time to get the unit ready - which was the case for me.Then tenant provided me proper notice by text message a few days before the 60 day required notice back in May. 

@Daniel E.

So does the pay roll.If you do the math, and you bother to allocate proper $ amounts to all of the line-items, you should realize that $500 is just not enough to cover all of the bases.

I am surprised they are running out of hot water fast, the smaller tanks should heat the water faster than the larger 50 gallon tanks, maybe look into small tank heaters with more heating coils to heat the water even faster. take a look at this one, available from HD too https://www.rheem.com/product/marathon-30-gallon-e...that one may deliver enough hot water for your tenants.

Nothing is very new in real estate the laws were laid down years ago and pretty much the same.. couple concepts.. buy low sell high.rent for more than your all in costs.get a license and broker real estate for a career.get a mortgage license and help others get funding get an apprasiers license and get paid to evaluate properties and write reports.Work as a property manager and get paid to manage.ETc ETc For courses you may wish to take.. simply go to e bay and buy most every guru's courses for 25 to 50 bucks each go through the tapes and books you will find most of the information highly redundant because nothing is new there is only so many ways to skin the RE cat..

@Brandon WesleyYou didn't mention where the property is located.Question 1TIC - The rental property will be reported on your schedule E.