Can her participation, coupled with effective entity structuring, allow us to reduce our tax liabilities and/or claim our passive losses?

We appealed a bunch of multi's and got them all reduced a little. 

Taking the longest loan term will reduce your obligation, give you a better DTI ratio for future loans and you can make additional payments to reduce financing costs, even if the rate is higher.

I like to spread my houses in a city over several miles to reduce that risk.Nothing goes straight up, but it is hard to beat continual rental income.

Many are wrong about how high they have to jump and after jumping several times to a height they think is high enough and not scoring they start reducing the effort they put into the jump.

Sometimes during due diligence there is a need to reduce the price.

Even with windows, bad weather and clouds will reduce the daylight. 

Reduce interest by making additional payments to principal, consider taxes and long term goal, having equity is good, but difficult to use and it costs to take dollars back out of the walls.

Contractor shall not be liable for failure to carry out the terms of this Agreement to the extent such failure is due to a Force Majeure event, except for failures that could have been reasonably foreseen and guarded against so as to avoid or reduce the adverse impact thereof.

One of the main risks is DEFAULT (meaning, the borrower cannot pay you back).2) Think of ways to reduce or mitigate that risk.