What's going on with the individual line item operating expenses? 

Lock a tight buy box by submarket and vintage, underwrite to in-place income first, then model stabilized rents with conservative expenses and a true cap-ex reserve.

When you start utilities on the properties just purchased for STR purpose under an individual name but will be transferred to an LLC soon, is that better to wait the LLC to be done first then start the services, or turn them on as soon as possible to reduce the downtime to get ready and change the ownership to an LLC for the utility companies?

We have Vintage DST with no distributions.  

Three questions: 
Say I'm living in my quadplex and I buy washers and dryers for all four units. Am I only able to write off 3 of those new washers and dryers because one is going to my primary residence? 
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It is something larger investors have access to as well - but from individual investors its a big bonus 

The Mortgage Brokers Who Never Get a Loan FinancedMore than in any other industry I know, the loan brokerage/note broker business seems to attract more clueless individuals believing they can “broker” loans or notes.

Here it is in all it's glorious perspicuity:(3) The individual participates in the activity for more than 100 hours during the taxable year, and such individual's participation for the taxable year is not less than the participation in the activity of any other individual (including individuals who are not owners of interests in the activity) for such year;The regulation doesn't just require 100 hours of participation.It requires you to work at least as much as any other individual working on the property—including your property manager,.What does this mean in practice?

Functional antiques and vintage.

I googled it and found this.Notice this is for an individual, they are not adding 2 owners hours together.A cost segregation study itself does not have material participation rules; rather, material participation determines how you can utilize the accelerated depreciation losses generated by the study to offset different types of income.Without material participation, the losses are considered "passive" and can generally only offset other passive income.