After reading plenty of material, I never came across people discussing taxes and LLC regarding buying and holding properties.So if I get this right, you would collect your rents for one year and when tax season is on, you would have to prove what maintenance, property taxes, insurance, P&I cost you in order to get it deducted ? 

I've been following BP for a while and have listen to about 65 podcast so far (All great material Thanks Josh and Brandon) I am here to learn and offer any advice I can giveThanks

It would be a good material to start with.

I want to know how much to discount the rent, how to verify that the work is being done, who pays for materials, etc.

If your situation exceeds the recommendations of the code book, you're going to be looking at manufactured header material - which are sized either by an engineer or according to specific manufacturer's guidelines.

Just read a lot of internet stuff and watched a lot of videos.  

We then schedule our full time contractor to come give a bid and verify the materials will be accurate as well. 

It would be a good material to start with.

Browsing the internet will only take you so far, the real business is done face to face at these meetings. 

Sometimes a new agent in the business will be more open to your proposal.This is what, as an investors, I'd want my Fiduciary Buyer's Agent to do for me:To supply me with expired listings on a daily basis in certain zip codes To assist in locating the owners of those propertiesOr, to make an offer through the expired listing agentTo present contracts and to open negotiations on leads received To search for FSBO's in a prescribed area, to notify me and to make offers on those propertiesTo keep me informed of any new laws, regulations or news about the area I want to invest in.To run ads in local newspapers and internet sites;   "Wanted, all real estate, houses and commercial properties in the following zip codes 21234, 21236, 21214 and 21304.