In the case of XOME for occupied homes, if the title search came back with say a utilitylien or a city lien and if it involves payment of $$ to clear the lien then the payment comes from hou(buyer) as opposed to seller paying for it.

They say a study done by a construction engineer is generally more reliable than a study done by someone with no engineering experience. 

This is slightly different than taxes per say, as my CPA will do different things with the numbers than we do with the P&L.

If I have an expense that's only related to one property, say a utility bill, than I can expense it under that LLC.

I would say a 15-20 dollar book by an expert is the best place to start though for accurate information.That being said, these are helpful:Tax-Saving Strategies for Real Estate Investors: How to Pay Less & Keep More This Year5 Clever (& Legal) Tax Strategies to Save Real Estate Investors MoneyAlso browse this Forum: Tax, Legal Issues, Contracts, Self-Directed IRA for existing strategies posted.Hope that helps!

some of you bankers who are reading this will probably say. As

Those are much more indicative of a potential tenants risk than say a low credit score.

Say a friend is selling you their property.

Needless to say, a lot.I will also agree, Bill said it well, if you are being taxed, you are making money and that sort of is the point.

So, if the cloud were in say, Amazon's or Rackspace's data centers, that would be better received than say a privately owned data center in a nondescript office park somewhere.I run a software company, but not the one with this offering and not anything similar to this one.