Your tenant in not identifying themselves as having or wanting a service dog when being screened was dishonest in their rental application.

This practice of renting by the room is very common in college towns; you can probably get some good ideas from the websites of these type of rentals, including rules, applications, & leases.  

The red tape that comes with this loans makes it virtually impossible to work with any but a select group of GCs who specialize in these kind of projects.

With a few exceptions that I do not believe will be applicable here. 

So, again, I have a hard time believing I'll get something under contract by offering the 70% rule.Do you guys still find the 70% rule applicable?

Everything from removing painters tape to pulling weeds in the yard.

Turbo Tax or any crank out your tax program isn't considering future ramifications of your current tax elections, it won't address inventory accounting methods such as LIFO or FIFO (look it up) where economic conditions may be applicable to your operations, Section 179 isn't always the best approach.The only "issue" I see with the comment by @Ted Lanzaro is that his statement wasn't qualified fully, saying less than $150,000, that should have been mentioned with an income of being greater than say %45,000 because if you don't have any real income you sure aren't going to save thousands.

I have many many books and tapes!

I am familiar with the standard Zillow and alike applications.

They stress test the property numbers, specifically at the balloon point (if applicable), and will not lend if the property does not meet their underwriting criteria.