For routine maintenance to be immediately deductible, the IRS wants the expense to satisfy all four of the following criteria: Repairs are regularly recurring activities of the type you would expect to perform;The repairs result from the wear and tear of being used in a trade or business;The repairs are needed to keep the property operating efficiently in its normal condition;And it's fully expected that the repairs would need to be performed either: More than once during a 10-year period (for buildings and structures related to buildings), orMore than once during the property's class life (for property other than buildings).

You must satisfy the "Qualified Use" requirement, which means that the relinquished property and the replacement property must be held for rental, investment or business use.  

But only to support some of the advise in this thread to start with a few properties which may not need much if any maintenance to wet your beak, that do not require that you bring a set of skills that you may not yet have.There are so many people here who have been in the same shoes you are in and had a lot of success, listen to them on the podcast and read their blog post, I think you will be satisfied.  

If you don't have that money you literally won't be able to sell and satisfy the mortgage.  

Per Cozy's website :If you reject their application based on credit, the applicant will already have access to their report within Cozy, which satisfies the federal requirement that landlord’s share with rejected applicants the credit report that was relied upon to deny an application.

End of lease, you can give 30 days notice for the tenant to be out and the only way to satisfy the notice is to leave.That being said. given what I typically hear about california, I would be surprised if there is some sort of way for a landlord to bypass the process here.

That should satisfy the VA appraiser.

So, a seller (executor, administrator, trustee or successor trustee) may just have to be satisfied with the typical $1,000 game show type loving parting gift.

In VA, there is a letter to have the tenant sign (forget the name of it), but basically states what you receive and that it doesnt affect the upcoming court date or satisfy the balance of what is owed, etc.

They were fully satisfied outside of the closing and the seller never requested/mentioned any sort of reimbursement for them.I guess what it comes down to "is the money we received at closing taxable income - even though its technically denoted for use toward property taxes".