Many of them have stipulations and overlays that prevent people from taking advantage of them (because they want legit families not people gaming systems).

It is assumed by the state that any rental larger than a 1 bedroom will fall into this category at some point because of the anti-discrimination laws that prevent landlords from refusing a family because they have a child.

A triplex I went to see last month has star-bolts through the face of it to prevent more structural issues, and the back of the property is MISSING... just sold for $100k.

They will have specific procedures on how to close the well to prevent contamination from surface water.

We would be signing a lease and then subletting, which is as far as I can tell ok to do, as long as the lease doesn't have any clauses preventing one from subletting. 

However, the purpose of the LLC is to prevent recourse beyond the LLC's assets.

I took my inspection report and for a couple dollars had a VA put every item into categories of possible repairs / preventative maintenance such as water, electrical, safety, cosmetics.

So that helped prevent termites.

Have any of you increased your W2 dependents in order to prevent getting a refund at the end of the year?

It was good learning experiences and definitely going to take more preventative actions so this won’t happen again.