As others have mentioned when using depreciation of the property and capital expenses, mortgage interest, and operating expenses your taxable income will be less than you may be thinking To speed up or enhance depreciation you can always cost segregate the property( talk to a Cpa) because it usually isn't worth it on single family properties.

You can order windows with different glazings to either enhance (needed up here where we have long winters) or reduce (needed in Tx where you have ample heat) solar gain.  

We've even put 20% down on stuff and have had it work, even more so after we sunk additional money into the place to enhance the units to become more desirable for renters. 

The purpose of this notepad is for the purpose of maintaining random thoughts that pop into my head in reference to enhancing my business.

I have known several commercial real estate brokers who are already licensed realtors, and then attain the CCIM designation to further enhance their knowledge, and also to be able to have the "CCIM" on their business cards.

Some of the things that we do for our tenants to enhance community is...1.

I'm basically learning this stuff myself, so I'd hate to give out bad advice, but this is what I've been told by my attorneys so far.BTW, I went with a "manager-managed" LLC, vice "member-managed", for privacy reasons, not because it enhanced asset protection (unless you want to count the added privacy as another layer of asset protection itself).

Hi All,My Mentor emphasizes the need for carrying out at least one incoming enhancing activity a day. 

Knows the loopholes in the tax codes and ways to enhance your return.

That's the basic discussion so you can decide on CapEx, enhancing tenant appeal, planning on future spending.4) If there is a city you want to buy in that is growing in a good way (I'm not real crazy about LAX/SFO for example) and want to be there (I think SE USA is good growth), then pick a city and talk to a broker there.