Cities rather see you be proactive about the empty spaces rather than have it sit vacant as a poor reflection of the community. 

My bank assumed the $62,000 I owned on the note, and made available to me $50,500 on a $150,000 property.The thing I love about HELOCs is that they are valued based on the property, so they reflect your market.

The more I reflect back on it and knowing that he's a type A go-getter, I think when I said we were interested in investing he went ahead and just threw us in that bucket.As far as not closing any deals with him, we had only secured him as our agent because we were looking for a rental property for ourselves.

You could argue that a lot of hesitance hinges on how agents want to be perceived, but if an agent is perceived poorly, it reflects on all offers sent from them to any agent about any property after a while and can have a hand in dragging the ship down if they don't manage it.

As yet another alternative, I thought that maybe I just pay for all the utilities and rent both places out with premium rents that reflect the benefit of utilities included. 

Is there a mass exodus from NYC yes I’m one of them bought a new construction 1.5 hours away are the prices reflecting the mass exodus sadly no or maybe not yet..I had a similar idea as your wife figured let me buy a condo in UWS use it for Airbnb and on days I work late have somewhere to crash near by but I’m just seeing modest discounts on prices in certain areas nothing to get excited about...

Most likely, it looks like it was already priced to reflect the Furnace and Roof.

Places like Houston might have more rapid appreciation but the cost of entry will reflect that.

The price thus reflects this risk/uncertainty. 

Rather, they are part of operating expenses.All good rental analysis calculators should already have a line item for annual property taxes, for the purpose of calculating key financial indicators like net operating income, cash flow, and cash-on-cash return.For items like closing costs, you will absolutely need to calibrate and adjust your analysis tool to reflect your actual market.