Few yards outside the city limits.I'm a flipper and want to deduct all my business trips in and out of town.Or should I say "Metropilitan area".So I want to know how my house can qualify as 'Home Office' for Mileage deduction without ever filing for the Home Office deduction.In other words, How do I tell/prove IRS I have a home office?

Doesn't cost much to stick a sign in the yard either. 

This is a 2 1 1/12 750 sq ft unit with a beautiful yard.

Should I be worried that some day an oil company will come in and start drilling in my back yard?

My advertising in only the sign in the yard. 

With a Duplex, the tenant has a little bit of yard for the pet unlike a larger Multi.Items 3, 4, and 5 are the the most important for me.

I feel we can rent a crack house next to a grave yard sitting on a railroad track for the right price.  

Vs. the opposite situation, a nice home similar to the others, but with an amazing back yard that will cause first time home buyers moving from apartments to get emotional immediately.Pricing accurately and being a good listing agent also means seeing the potential in the property that may not currently  be obvious, and working with the sellers to maximize the value of what they are selling before it ever goes on market. 

There are mounds of trash and piles of junk all over the yard.

Second lie, my tenant has 6 cars house has been completely remolded, new paint, fence and yard.