Look at this as great practice and experience. 

I'm a realtor and investor and our country guy comes to the realtor association once a quarter and practically begs us to ask first. it's worth a thought.

So part of this is to get an attorney who regularly practices before the magistrate in that magisterial district where the property is located; that could help in determining what might be needed as proof.Let's see if we can get some attorneys to weigh in: @Chris K. and @Tom Gimer

@Wendy Schultz Appreciate the input, I've been doing some online research with the city of Phx so hopefully I'll get it right.

You can then develop your own plan not simply take random suggestions from strangers on line.

Repairs, are what depend on being "placed in service".So ultimately, (you assume no liability here for tax advice) best practice is to itemize receipts so that at the end of the year, it's easy to determine what was a repair and what was an improvement.Currently I have a lump sum figure, not itemized.  

Disclaimer: While I’m an attorney licensed to practice in PA, I’m not your attorney.

Hey Community!Long time since I have been on so sorry I haven't been contributing more. I have an interesting tool for converting real estate deals into analysis similar to what you would present for stocks or mutual ...

#helpme I am online looking at the assessed value of the property and it is way below what they are asking.

After asking for advice from some family that has done this type of work in the past and learning several different methods online i was ready to tackle the what seemed impossible tub remodel.I'm not going to bore you with all the little things that i learned that need to be done but i ended up going with the cement backerboard method.