If it's sitting in a business account can colleges look at that money as accessible cash a college might see as accessible money which in turn would reduce college grant money allowed. 

Cutting your top-line income will cut your bottom-line profit by a disproportionate amount, i.e. if you reduce your rent from $650 per door to $550 per door, that means your top-line goes down to $1100 and your bottom line goes from $350 to $150. 

If you can't sell it within a few days to solid buyers then your price is probably too high and you can reduce it. 

I started a website laying out my systems hoping to pay it forward so those could learn from my  mistakes and not experience the same thing.I have found that "really" treating the houses like a  business with a 14 page lease and being super specifics has reduced a lot of problems.

If you didn't have a partner, i would suggest to definitely apply your commission directly to the deal by reducing the proceeds to the seller.

This will reduce your rental income and may even generate a rental loss.The article below provides a good overview.http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/tax-issues-when-renting-out-room-your-house.htmlCongrats on the first property!

If the value is more than that, the excess reduces your parents lifetime gift limit.  

Equity costs you money...unless you access it, by selling the property (then you're starting all over again), or refinancing (which gets part of it out, but may increase the cost on the property too high and make the little "cash out" you get at closing not worth the cost each month in reduced cash flow.Try this.  

What I've done, however, is reduced substantially the ability of knuckleheads to sue me personally through the LLC. 

If market rent did not increase with the increase in the property's appreciation then a refinance may reduce your cash flow and, by association, your cash on cash return.In this scenario, it may be prudent to sell the property to extract the tied up 173K in equity and accept that you've made 273% profit on your original 46K down payment.