Sooner or later, allowing your tenant to do things like this goes bad and leads to you losing lots of money.

I’m no pro like a lot on this site, but I have a fairly good handle on the expenses since I pay them.

I'd love to make boat loads of money, I would hate to lose boat loads of money. 

With rent at $1350, expenses at 50% your overall position on this property shows negative return in the range of $2200 per month...give or take.Your feelings of losing out are spot on.

I've been using the laptop lately to browse this site.

Hire them hourly and put them under your wing... this is basically like the interview process... you groom the individual slowly giving them more and more responsibility over the next 2-5 years until they can run the job site on their own with minimal input from  you and can clearly communicate any issues that may arise.

The bank DGAS if you make $250k a year but the property loses money.

As you may now, Robert, BP is the best site on the internet for real estate investing.

Exactly, the county site likely shows the exemption amount, just calculate it out.....Assuming the total Value stays the same.

Are you afraid your renters stop paying you and now you can’t pay the mortgage so you end up losing your primary residence?