Know your market, buy right, rehab right, have the right Property Management, have the right tenant, reduce vacancy/turn over.

This will reduce your taxable W2 income (401(k) contributions offset your taxable income) and you are paying yourself the interest on the loan while preserving the ability to build up your retirement funds.

If you buy a BULK MAIL PERMIT from the post office you can save hundred's if not thousands in mailings and printing costs.

Some folks may say writing off little stuff is a waste of time, I see it as for everything I can deduct it reduces the profit side where you have to pay taxes on it.

On my new Schedule E I set up a new depreciation schedule reducing the Basis calculated above by the proportion of depreciation given by the DST.Help please.  

However, If you'd run a bunch of AUS scenarios for folks with that many financed properties, you'd know that Fannie in 99.99999999999999999999% of cases reduces LTV by 5%, which in your scenario would put it at 70%.

If they purchase, the option fee amount paid will be reduced from the purchase price to lower the purchase price on the sales agreement, after they exercise their option to purchase.* The property is not sold and title is not transferred until the tenant exercises the option to buy.

Busy roads and schools, etc don't reduce your rent like it would reduce your sales price.  

You can create custom apps that will allow you to track, keep notes, set workflows, bulk import date, export data, filter and even make an online data entry sheet that you can implement into a web page for virtual assistant data entry.The site does so much that the options are virtually limitless. 

Getting an environmental study completed and obtaining all of the approvals needed from the local municipality before actually purchasing the property is also a way to reduce a potential disaster.