When the political landscape changes the tax code, then it's good to change up your strategy.In 1997, when the Capital Gains Exclusion for $250k per person, $500k per married couple was signed in, it made a lot of sense to invest for Appreciation or you will not be able to take advantage of the properties that will move up because of this exclusion.This year, the landscape has changed dramatically.

Depreciation limits for personal automobiles used in business are dramatically improved.

You will find lots of good reasons to invest in Waikiki.The number of STRs over the past 3 years have increased dramatically.

Most of you likely don’t qualify as real estate professionals and won’t unless you quit or dramatically reduce your regular work hours so what tax planning strategies (particular to real estate investing) have you used besides taking depreciation and mortgage interest deductions?

I believe they usually require 20% down payment, but as mentioned before, they would take your down payment and put it into an escrow account and boost up their total loan amount. 

Read, read, read, and then decide what your priorities are (i.e. owning this house free and clear ASAP, or boosting other investment vehicles ASAP).

You better have a some good experience under your belt before you tackle dramatically changing floorplans.

i attribute the dramatic increases in prices of items to this idea and utter acceptance of "credit".

Since it's possible to leverage money with real estate, I'm using it to boost my investments online.

The depreciation on a year to year basis simply gives you a nice boost because of the time value of money.