For reference, expensing = decreasing your passive income now to pay lower taxes now.

The extra storage space will not increase or decrease the value of your project.

I don't think we will ever see a nation-wide rental decrease of 4% in a single day as the DOW did today.

Though, we have been seeing a long term trend in inflation decreasing, but the recession has skewed the data so reversion to the mean could be coming

Cement board does nothing to decrease deflection.

Thinking ahead, I want to invest out of state since Hawaii is extremely expensive to get started but in doing so, I want to decrease the amount of headaches I incur.

Three of them increased, three decreased.  

This makes sense, so upon questioning whether or not the mortgage brokers inquiry into my credit report affects my credit score I found out it does, and it's called a hard inquiry which lasts 2 years and each time its pulled by shopping different brokers it decreases a few points which can impact the score a lot. but wait, I did learn that dependent on the fico scoring model that the particular broker uses they may use either the old 14 day or new 45 day inquiry model; this lets the person shopping have the 14 or 45 day shopping grace period so that at the end of the period it all counts as 1 single hard inquiry pull.Now my question is, how can I determine what my financing options are without it impacting my score to much!?

You have to disclose you are a realtor at the point of meaningful contact and your calls decrease when you send mailers (why?

I would like to decrease that amount as much as possible.