I purchased the tools with my investment property LLC credit card and wondered if it is possible and/or favorable to depreciate these assets?

My entire life “savings” of $12K that I slowly built while I increased credit card balances almost equally (forced savings?

I was thinking about post cards, door hangers or flyers.

@Mindy Jensen I hope you don't mind but I went ahead and stole a graphic from one of @Brandon Turner's articles.

These skills include graphic visualization and rendering, energy modeling, sustainable site management and building design, to name a few.

Also, FWIW, my wife is a graphic designer/architect and I'm pretty sure I would have heard about it sooner if we were living in the degree of squalor this bill indicates. 

Call landlords that have vacancies and ask if they will sell.Get some nice business cards together and give them to people.

forget having home depot install. call up a local (independent) carpet installer and i guarantee it will be cheaper. let the guy know that you have rentals and may be looking to use him for future gigs. i was quoted $250 for HD to install my last carpet job. i went into a local carpet warehouse and got the card of a guy they contract out to and he did an install and even hauled away the old stuff for $80.

As we spoke, my real estate investing came up and I asked for a business card from the contractor stating the need for construction services at some point. 

I second Chris Mason 's response there in terms of you being able to qualify as long as nothing went south.It could very well be that the underwriter didn't know how to apply the fannie mae rules for calculating DTI with an investment property OR maybe their bank had an overlay.But basically, your DTI should not take a hit when adding that property.Here is how they're supposed to calculate DTI with an investment property.1) Figure your personal debt and income side.So lets say your monthly debt payments (i.e. car payment, credit cards, PITI on your primary residence, etc) are 2k/mo.