I think I know the answer to this, but if I want to reduce my passive income, is paying down the mortgage via extra principal payments reduce my passive taxable income or is it viewed basically as profit?  

I think its more wise to reduce debt before investing.

The costs would reduce your taxable gain on sale.

You do realize if it's already in foreclosure then that reduces the length of your foreclosure?

This will reduce the moisture in the bathroom as long as they turn the fan on when they shower.

Should I just have the utilities included in a higher rent for the month-to-month-lease and then reduce the rent down to local comps for the 1 year lease? 

There are too many ways it can go wrong.It's also bad policy to reduce the rent for anything.

Since inventory has reduced in southside and westside beltline neighborhoods and with all the developments going on, i feel like prices will continue going up at a faster than normal rate. 

Burdened with a vulnerable and helpless feeling, I agreed to accept ABC Baltimore’s reduced offer of $95k and closed the buy—back with ABC (we still had to pay closing costs).

The idea of this monster hack would be not only to reduce my $1,450.00 nut to live in a condo, where I probably spend only 1/3 of my time in (since I’m at work), I am also looking at attempting to deducting a bulk of the necessary utilities I just pay for with after tax dollars since my businesses (the law office) and the renting out the rooms will generate these expenses.