Decreased global demand for oil, benchmark interest rate drop, mortgage applications are down for 3+ weeks, freight trucking is way down, gold is up, the stock market is up and down (a lot of emotion there) but I think we are in for a drop, bonds are sliding, quantitative easing will ramp up again.

But what's the alternative?

free cable tv, free wifi, coin laundry onsite, reimbursement of moving truck rental

Both will use the net rental Income from the appraisal addendum, subprime has alternative income program s if you cannot go on conventional on a standard full doc program.

From the alternate name for the professional coverage you can see what it is intended to cover for Professionals, doing something wrong or failing to something that you should have.  

Alternatively, you can use software to pull up the shadows and pull down the highlights. 

Again, thank you for taking the time to give me an alternative way of searching!

it would depend on the type of job and budget, I suggest calling every connection on home advisor, angie list, signs on the back of their trucks etc. in order to build a rolodex

What alternative method would you propose for the IRS to use to verify someone's status as a Real Estate Professional? 

Other than sell (this doesn't sound like a good rental at all), the only alternative I can think of is to rent out a room or 2.