I need help tax planning, knowing the right moves to make and where I can minimize my realized income.

I pay a minimal amount of every commission, no matter how big the sale.

Since you are looking for an investment property for cash flow, you need to minimize your fixed costs and one of your major fixed costs is property taxes.

How do you avoid being accused discrimination when screening and turning down applicants for your rental? What are the best practices and methods to protect yourself as a landlord? Specifically in upstate New York.

I imagine part of this is all the other nuttiness going on that this is on the bottom of priorities but I'm beginning to think this could be delayed as they probably changed how they input that back end data to fit the system.

@Andy Wilson  Call your loan officer and tell him you have less than a week and you want him to match the current rate or are willing to jump ship to another bank and delay closing by a week. 

I have minimal education in finance/accounting/operations etc, which is why I feel that an MBA might fill in the gaps in my knowledge.

If rejected, we have to start all over again, another 6 month delay, with COOP fees of over $800/month, no rental income.

Hey Nathan,There are plenty of brokers with minimal monthly fees but not all of them would fit your needs.

Apologies for the delayed response.