Quicker closes, No qualifying, etc. and when you have those deals that work out badly or you take a loss (it will happen), the JV can look pretty good.JV will never look like the best deal in the pro forma numbers but how often do you hit the ideal numbers?

You can then contribute up to 20% of profit theoretically generating a loss.

If it's your home, and it's vacant, then theft is indeed an excluded cause of loss, specifically because theft is more likely in a vacant home.

Seeing the pending potential nightmare tenant situation looming, I decide to cut my losses and let her off the hook.

If so, I'd cut your losses and get rid of the place.It sounds like you might be considering throwing good money after bad.

I think pulling everything together into one website would be useful in my mind... but I don't know how feasible this might be...One site which consolidates MLS listings (redfin.com, zillow.com), demographic data like distribution of family size, rental unit composition (city-data.com) rental comps for closed leases (rent-ometer.com, zillow.com), on-market rentals nearby (CL), walkscore/bikescore/transitscore (walkscore.com), etc...Of course, right now, these all have their proprietary models.. maybe you can just throw them a few pennies to aggregate it, or justify that the aggregated information is your own product..

Determine the maximum amount you can come out of pocket, and make that your deductible.Replacement cost: insuring a property for its replacement value means that the limit for your policy is set at approximately what it would cost to rebuild the property in a total loss.

If it was a loss it would not make sense to do so, as the whole idea is to defer taxes. 

I have done this many times (too often in fact)  telling the lender that they may become liable in taking unnecessary actions that amount to punitive dealing destroying a borrower's credit, ability to borrow, loss of equities and displacing them when there is means to indemnify the lender from any financial loss.

She’s not willing to help me in any kind away knowing we don’t have any kind of mold loss in Oklahoma.