If there are things of value, pack them up and place them in storage.

Small business owners that use Schedule C to report their income and expenses as well as partners receiving a K-1, farmers filing a Schedule F and employees who aren’t provided a place to work by their employersPer IRS publication 587, To qualify to deduct expenses for business use of your home, you must use part of your home: Exclusively and regularly as your principal place of business; Exclusively and regularly as a place where you meet or deal with patients, clients, or customers in the normal course of your trade or business; In the case of a separate structure which is not attached to your home, in connection with your trade or business; On a regular basis for certain storage use; For rental use (see Pub. 527); or As a daycare facility.What are the allowable deductions?

I had to rent storage units for all my stuff which is now costing me almost $1k a month!

We have a $50k purchase agreement on an empty warehouse that would be a great indoor storage unit property.

It will eventually be converted to a duplex or possibly a climate-controlled storage unit.

I define the "rat race" as the endless circle of paying bills and saving, only.

I'm working on a mini-storage development in Independence Iowa.Independence has a population of 6,000 and currently has about 330 storage units.

SFR / tenant screening can be picked up trial and error but all the other more complicated deal types;   MF, self storage, tax deeds,  raw land, hotels, even flipping,  bla bla bla need specific boot camp like education. 

But there's nothing in my lease specifically about not using the attic as storage, so the other option is that I pay for it, ask her to take all her items being stored up there out, and draw up a clause about not using the attic moving forward. 

Each unit has access to a 7' x 7' storage room in the basement and coin laundry machines.