You should then qualify for home office deduction and your trips from home to the job site and back will most likely be deductible.

These are the tough critical questions that you need to know the answers to BEFORE you even go under contract for that first property.If your loan officer and realtor aren't working through that same thought process with you, then you're working with the wrong people.

.   :-)  Note, we invite tenants to call our office if they have special circumstances they want to discuss, rarely does anyone do this.

They don't actually have real boots on the ground in the markets they advertise, let alone offices.

Brinkworth Law Office  - ask for Maryalice (paralegal) and let her know I sent you.

The origination cost associated with the underwriting team, loan officer, and support staff would be too high for most organizations to make the economics work on this small of a commercial loan.

Apartments, retail, office, industrial, hotel, or self storage. 

Talked to one family office, directly to the decision makers.

My offices are based out of Bayside and Flushing.

You generally get a little better rate because they have a bigger pool of money to draw from, but if you don't fit inside the box exactly they can't resell it, so they won't do the loan.That's why one of the first questions I ask myself when dealing with lenders is, do I think this one will "fit in the box" or not - I want the best rate of course, but I also don't want to waste my or the loan officer's time if I know it's probably not going to work from the get-go.