I have yet to see the connections of cast iron not greatly reduced on diameter on any property that I have had scoped from early 1950s or older (likely more than a dozen scopes).  

As others mentioned, a cash out refinance could be costlier but it could be a great way to reduce your risk by having fixed payments (if the goal is to hold long term rentals). 

They compared LL to sex workers with the LL being thought of as the worse of the two (at least the sex workers work for the money). 

You really need to figure out what your goals are whether that be cash flow or at least reducing living expenses, or more appreciateation based, there are so many strategies out there but I think that over complicates things buy a house that you can afford and are comfortable with the payments on.

That would greatly reduce the amount of data I need to input, but I'm not sure if it would be sufficient for tax purposes, or from a general business record-keeping perspective.Any help on this would be appreciated.

You will find your net down payment can be reduced to 15%, 10%, or in rare cases 0%.

Most DSCR lenders offer a reduced ratio, such as .75 or even no ratio (with an increase in LTV).

Code enforcement where I am at will reduce the fines to 10 cents on the dollar if you make the required fixes to the property… but they don’t go away.hope it helps! 

Here is a link to an article from earlier this year which lays out the full process and several approaches you can take to try and have your taxes reduced;

You might want to automate the analytics and have a team to send you deals that are on/ off market to reduce the time you spend searching for deals.