Expenses decrease your net worth.

I think if you get a license before you start buying investment properties... your odds of buying property for yourself will significantly decrease.  

How would cashflow producing real estate ever decrease taxable income?

So all the properties wash out to roughly the same profitability.Note that I don't want to purchase properties that require any rehab first, because all that does is increase my investment, decrease my leverage, and therefore decrease my cash-on-cash and ROI.SO NOW I CONSIDER OTHER FINANCING.  

Remember there will be tax advantages to owning as well, which will decrease your taxable income.  

That can help decrease confusion and misunderstanding.

Also did it this way in hopes of decreasing the chance of the bank calling the loan due.

We didn't have nice and neat graphs, but we could feasibly track a particular set of properties and show you whether or not prices have increased or decreased over the years.

Meaning that a savvy investor buying cash-flow-positive properties according to the above math will continually have their DTI *decrease* as they buy more and more investment properties. 

We all know decreasing tenant turnover helps the bottom line, so what extra free or low-cost things do you do to keep your good tenants happy?