With the knowledge you get, the next project you will know what areas you can take over confidently to carve out more equity.Mis-steps in development can turn a project into something you have to complete just to break even. 

You will never force these people to be civil so unless you want the next 10.5 months to be miserable for you and the upstairs tenant get them to move on, now.If it continues, your upstairs tenant may have a case to break her lease and possibly even sue you for mental anguish.Again, these people will not change so you need to extract yourself from their lives.

I would love to start attending meetups if the wife will let me break away from the family for a couple hours.

You definitely can depreciate other items faster LuAnn if there is a way for you to break out the costs for these items separately from the structure.  

I generally like to have $5500 in reserves at all times in case a furnace breaks.  

Unfortunately, we never really know when "later" is going to break something major.

You would post one payment and break it up into those three parts.  

I've been taking a break from the internet.  

I love to learn new things and knowing that I can handle the issues that affect my properties, without always having to break the bank account on handyman services.

She had a senior citizen tax break for her homestead, which she wanted to transfer from the condo she's selling to the new condo she purchases.