@Juliette Holm I recently had a meeting with a long time commercial real estate developer who had also built, bought, and sold several businesses as well as personally owning some residential rental properties.

As such, most of the time the borrower can pay that direct to the appraiser.

We experienced what looked to be an all time high in terms of sales in the real estate industry in 2016.

Thank you for taking the time to read our intro, we look forward to speaking with you.  

It seems like this would be the perfect fit and you wouldn't have to spend time maintain a website.

I have a hard time qualifying due to lack of 'earned' income anyway. 

just make sure to list it multiple times that it is a room for rent, some people are very bad at reading lol.

Renovation time 3 months.

I have plenty more questions but, for a later time. 

Probably worth mentioning, TurboTax can facility real-time assisting from tax professionals if needed, obviously this will be at extra cost.Hope this helps!