I didn't read all of this.Next time in a contract have a contingency in the purchase and sale that ALL of the items listed have to be received for due diligence period to start.This way you generally know right away if the seller is hiding stuff.

Investment expenses that are included as a miscellaneous itemized deduction on Schedule A (Form 1040) are allowable deductions after applying the 2% limit that applies to miscellaneous itemized deductions.

Another thing that may help is if you can place a price per door and/or itemize the asking price per home.

Not only that, but it has a feature called a Fixed Asset Items List which you can CUSTOMIZE to tell you anything you want to know about this property.You can design it to give you the Land Description, the year it was built, Square Feet. 

We stocked the kitchen with everything we could think of that a guest might want or need (such as coffee grinder, blender, popcorn popper, crock pot, citrus juicer, basic pantry items, etc.)

If possible, I would skip the temporary service and have a new service installed as the very first item and then just use temporary leads from that until I was ready to start roughing in the rest of the electric.

Our town has a "Baytown Online Garage Sales" and "Baytown Swap-N-Sell" groups on Facebook where locals post items for sale and ofter homes and rentals.

When application is taken items are collected by a loan officer or processor and sent in to an underwriter for approval.

I'm totally fine with honoring the $125 I originally sent them, though.Hired a carpet cleaning service to clean the carpets ($100)Got an actual invoice from the HOA regarding the cost to replace the garage remote and building key ($50 & $100, respectively)I split the cleaning/repairs between them @ $137.50 and added $150 to the tenant who had new keys and garage remotes.Within 21 days after the lease ended I mailed them both their refunds and itemized list of deductions via certified mail.

What is the expected time to fix for example the following items?