I have about 8-9 feet of ceiling height and I'm not sure if I can put a barrier 6inches to a foot to reduce the noise transfer.  

Options: ideally increase your income and reduce your debt.  

I think that since I will be constructing the houses, it will be less time and cost to put the solar panels up on the houses or ground mount them in community spaces and give buyers the option of buying their solar array outright or paying for the solar energy produced at a reduced cost. 

New tenants told us they switched it into their names, energy company said that the tenant never called.  

The option consideration/ option fee does reduce the purchase price @Tina Marie when exercised.  

Track everything you do and view that regularly so you can tell what you can do to earn more income and reduce expenses.

Individualized assessments shall establish why new open space is unnecessary in the area because of adequate existing open space or why the fees should be reduced because of lower open space costs in the area than those estimated in Section 16-18-040 hereof.

They will have a management fee which will reduce your overall returns - but they provide a service, so it depends on what your objectives are.  

And obviously, you would use every option available to reduce your taxable income, as every business does. 

It seems quite possible if not a certainty that federal budget cuts in the near term could drastically reduce social welfare programs.