If you deliberately claim fewer expenses (or inflate your income) in order to qualify for a mortgage, this is technically mortgage fraud and the penalties for that are very severe, up to and including incarceration.You have a little leeway in personal expenses you choose to declare in your business such as mileage on your personal vehicle and home office, but anything else that is required to run your business (everything from office supplies to rent to inventory to subcontract labor) is fully reportable.While the IRS will not care if you reduce your expenses and pay more taxes, the mortgage company most certainly will.  

Tenants have been known to deliberately break appliances or cause damage, to get new items.6.

Or try not to deliberately. 

Whether it's not wording certain clauses in the contract to sneak it by, being on an email chain with them deliberately stating how they just want this to close, to inciting bidding wars on properties that do not deserve it all the way to outright lying to get business done.

Not everything needs to match but it needs to look deliberately mixed.

Thanks for the kind words, encouragement, and the suggestion of a meaningful, deliberate way forward.

I know that the FBI, IRS, and FDIC tend to move very slowly and deliberately, and only move forward with an arrest when they believe they have a very strong case with sufficient hard evidence to get a conviction. $35M is a lot of money as well.

When the prospectus is deliberately worded to be conservative for income, why would it be a red flag to state that we can outperform it?  

JacksonvilleI'm starting my journey with RE and I want to be careful and deliberate with my first buy.

Leaving them stuck trying to sue you or paying to fix problems you've deliberately disguised can be devastating.