I don't ask for SSN and also personally have never provided/been pressured to provide them myself when I used to rent, and honestly don't want to open up liability for having to keep someone's SSN either.

Thus since in both cases you as a short-term landlord are merely providing basic services to your short-term guests (and receiving passive income in return), I would think this meets the requirements for Schedule E and I would think that you can report the income on Schedule E even if you don't own the property, thus avoiding the 15.3% self-employment tax?

However, she still has not signed her lease and I think she is doing it out of spite to provide a feeling of control, IMO. 

Then, you’ll pay the agent (say 3% for the sake of argument, $5,400, since they’ll be doing a lot of work for you on this - I’d order that prelim/TRIO with my escrow company, and help you find lien records if any, plus provide all the contractual guidance to make sure you don’t lose your earnest money).

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I would look into getting a registered agent address lots of offerings for this type of service it will help a little with privacy and peace of mind but you can and will be found...For example my county took out the name search for property records but if you go to the tax claim bureau site you can still easily search by name and business name.   

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