I currently am franchising stores for a few years now and am seeing the leases we sign and square footage we pay for. 

Anyone in SOCAL familiar with how to write that off on our taxes?

They have 529s to use to pay their living expenses and school tuition. 

Disclaimer: This is not tax preparation or legal advice. 

I have one roommate willing to pay half the mortgage, so I am trying to figure out how to structure my deal.

.- Specialty data - Preforeclosure, tax liens, evictions, etc. are always lagging data.

My tenants can pay rent with cryptocurrency, of course! 

@Eduard Gibert RenartBecause on a note you are getting principal and interest back and it’s hard to reinvest a very low payment.What you are also missing is the tax consequences in these situations which can have major impactsI did a post on this In tax liens advising where 8% is far better than 10% and illustrated this example.

The main tenant has also now stopped paying rent so it's all getting more and more messy. 

Robuilt has some youtube videos where he covers these tax considerations.