Otherwise the police may force you to treat them as tenants and go through the eviction process.

We have a contract with a pest control company that does quarterly preventative treatments on all of our properties at a severe discount- they guarantee their work and will do treat infestations at no additional costs. 

Any partner (and you should indeed treat these folks as a partner) should receive fair compensation and reward from working with you. 

They mentioned they had "gotten rid of all possessions, except for some essentials", and that "pest control said if they treated and moved on the same day", they would be gone.  

And yes, we treat all doors just like our own. 

My brokerage, which is also full service but is built around property management so we don't have quite the systems KW has, tends to work well for part timers who still treat it like a job and try to get trained up as quickly as is reasonable.With full service brokerages they come in a few types, one is large commission splits (like you get 50% to 80% of the commission) and the other is desk fees (you pay $1,000/mo to be there but keep nearly all your commission). 

So far this is what I've got, any additional information or corrections would be much appreciated.Pub 527 says:"You can use any reasonable method for dividing the expense" But the examples it gives are all for cases where the tenant and owner have 100% separate spaces, there's no clear statement in the Publication on how to treat shared rooms as far as I can tell, but most of the examples I've seen online seem to be counting shared spaces as 100% deductible.

I'm not trying to treat my business as such.

They treat the home as if it's their own, because it is! 

Everyone is different, but I almost treat these as emergency funds (i.e.