What strategies are you using to minimize taxes?

[Sam Tright]

Since note dividends are taxed at the same rate as regular income, and there are no tax benefit like depreciation or mortgage interest deductions, I am looking back to real estate to help avoid keeping 63% or less of what I make.

I want to minimize real estate related headaches though. I'm good at note creation, I don't actually want to hold property or at least manage it.

For those of you in a similar mindset, what did you end up doing? I've heard NNN commercial properties are a good low hassle tax shelter. Problem there is a dollar invested doesn't get you that much yield in tax savings. It's relatively low leverage in that respect.