A cleaner that does a great job, communicates well, is dependable, responsible, and restocks supplies is worth their weight in gold!!)

Your investment properties are not part of SALT.When we are talking about your rental properties - LTRs, STRs, MTRs, whatever other TRs - local property taxes paid on rentals belong on your business schedules, usually Schedule E.

I was able to import rent/income/expenses from my PMS and it auto-generated Schedule E for me.

If it's already rented, you'd have schedule e with depreciation.if you acquired at the date of death and there was no transfer, then you'd need to assess what the value was at date of death and see what current market value is. 

I have automated newsletters where I give tenants seasonal email reminders with short how-to videos, I carry home warranties, everything is online eforms: lease/addenda e-signatures, condition reports inspections where tenants upload pictures and they automatically get save to the cloud, pre-leasing app so I don't have no-shows, I even have SOPs where I hire out my showings and it explains everything they have to do step by step, etc. 

Tax Planning TipsDeductibility: Property taxes on rental property are 100% deductible on your Schedule E, reducing your taxable rental income.STR Loophole or REPS: If you operate short-term rentals or qualify as a Real Estate Professional (REPS), you may be able to offset this and other expenses against W-2 income.Pass-through Entity?

They will pitch the level of effort but not commit to delivering anything better than a low cost agent will Respectfully disagree - its about doing your due diligence on hiring an agent and the ones we use I believe are worth their weight in gold. 

Quote from @Janell E.: We found a home we love and see as the ideal place to raise our growing family.

Still, the rental income potential can carry significant weight in a valuation.2.

Importantly, shelter costs have a massively outsized weighting, making up ~40%+ of CPI.