They tend to be very high W2 earners with significant assets, and they feel like they would be a target if they knew their identify.

It lowers wages for us, construction wages have not gone up since 1960 likely due to illegal immigration.

Keep in mind that residents in communities with a lower cost-of-living (thus lower-priced housing) often make a lower average-wage.

Passive Loss Limitation: If your adjusted gross income (AGI) is over $150,000 (not 80k), the IRS limits Passive Activity Losses (PALs), which means rental losses, including depreciation, generally cannot offset other income like W2 wages.

We were fortunate to get the ball rolling fairly quickly and only have to fork out 1.5 months of mortgage on our own. my partner thinks he can do all the taxes for the home and depreciation on turbo tax, as that’s what he’s been doing forever since he’s a w2 earner.

Illegal because the state hasn't given the city the ability to charge that tax like they might a property tax or wage tax etc.

She already works, but now will have her regular low wage job, schooling full time, and will be getting a part time job added to her schedule. 

Despite current unemployment rates maintaining below 5%, the recent rise from 3.8% to 4.2%(recently revised to 4.1%) is significant, especially when considering wage growth adjusted for inflation.Over the last few years, the median household income has dropped by 7.2% when adjusted for inflation (and this isn't even considering volatile food and energy prices), a troubling trend given that inflation has outstripped income growth.

Yes prices are up and so are wages.  

The majority of my properties are in a very established neighborhood/area that would wage an all out war for a developer looking to build property that would compete with me.