Repairs made while the property is your primary residence are not deductible, but improvements can increase your cost basis, reducing future capital gains tax when you sell.

Tampa can work, but yes, taxes and insurance are higher and might keep cash flow tight.

I am speculating but I am curious if telling investors to wait a few years is to hope to avoid any investors from filing a lawsuit?

No personal income or tax returns are required.

Follow your state regulations on notices but do everything you can to avoid an eviction.

Quote from @Michael Overall: Good day, If an investor has 10 rentals and wanted to over time sell them and put the money tax free from a 1031 toward a large purchase is there a process to do that? 

If you are taking out a conventional mortgage of any kind, you can't buy in the LLC as it does not have two years of tax returns.You are also asking if an entire state is good to buy multifamily, which means you are too soon in the process to even talk about buying.

Current rent…,,,,Alternate rent……..If you bought monthly PI, ins, prop tax, maintenance, etc………Your cashflow available on top of your current rent. 

After closing, when the property taxes were due I never received any bill.

I think people were/are just trying to avoid agreeable gray.