@Don-CNY wrote:
But it's hard for me to believe that the trust is that large a benefit to me, because that would mean that I can have the trust pay at least some rental expenses and I can deduct them from my own taxable income.
Except in this instance the trust paying the expenses and you paying the expenses are the same.
The trust does not get to deduct the expenses once and then you get to deduct the same expenses (again) on your return; the expenses only get deducted once and that would be by you on your return.
