Does that mean net cash in your pocket after interest, taxes, principal, insurance, repairs, maintenance, credit card fees, etc.?

It's a great way to push the capital gains tax down the road if you decide to sell and purchase another investment. 

But for me living through tax reform ( working for a syndicator in the Bay Area in late 80s) this was their playbook."

There are some tax implications etc as well. 4.

So, reducing the income tax is always a plus. 

Your cash flow, is it all net after income taxes?

To me interest rate is just another expense like insurance and tax.

For example, I have been informed from a couple of banks that even though my current Airbnb totally offsets the mortgage, they will not take the income from the property towards the DTI calculations but rather take the gross income from the Taxes filed and consider the mortgage amount as an expense, which was hard to understand.

I mean, even if she's upset- she could come back and ask to negotiate or talk about it instead of ghosting--My taxes were raised adding an extra 200 per month.

Any construction will come with LOTS of permits.I don't know SLT market, it's CA and im in NV, but I've helped more than one person sell in Incline and buy in Reno because the numbers work better for them.I suggest you look into property taxes, and tenant protections of NV vs CA.