One KEY benefit of Real Estate Professional status is it allows you to take passive losses (e.g. excess depreciation on a rental) against active income (e.g. your spouse's W2 income).  

My current status is working or being with my kids 24/7, lots of stress. for $60k, they would find deals and split the profits, teaching me how to do it along the way. sounds really convincing, but I am searching for anyone that has actually taken the program.

Tell the people you will list their property under your account so they automatically get a super host status and higher rankings in the search feature.

It is rare that a super host will cancel a reservation because we lose our super host status if we do.If you read the STR listing description and its reviews, and choose accordingly, you don't normally encounter surprises.

Under fair housing laws it seems to be a gray area around "verifying" service animal status because the verbiage states that requirement can be fulfilled by anyone knowledgeable of the affliction.

Financial, legal, marital, mechanical, physical, emotional, vehicle problems and just overall bad luck.Everyone I rent to does contract work in a refinery. 

The biggest one is passing the IRS' definition of a Real Estate Professional Status which is the 750 or 500 hours of material participation and more than half your time is from real estate activities. 

If you live elsewhere and want legal entity status, then you need to FOREIGN FILE(FF) in the State(s) you wish to operate - - yep, one per.Sample:  Created S-Corp and LLC in Nevada and had the S-Corp the manager of the LLC.  

I am specifically looking for project/issue tracking software to use to track all projects going on in an office ( evictions, work order status, new acquisitions, energy efficiency, and so forth )

Move in a year and then transition to agent status.