Rental properties appeal the most to me, but I really like the capital-raising power of flips, so I am open to everything.

While they may not be appealing to every investor, they may work for you.

If you don't have much personally now and won't in the future, you're a less appealing target to be party to a lawsuit. 

Whenever you receive that little white card of death from the assessors office it is time to file your appeal, Appeals have a filing deadline.

It's worth considering how your unit will look in photos online and the more appealing it can be, the better it will rent.

How similar is that unit yours is it larger or smaller those are also factors and it’s overall appeal and if it had factors that were better than yours that could help offset the fact it’s in the basement I could still be worth a similar value to your unit .

Assuming their stance is that I'm not due anything, is there a higher agency I can appeal to?

The Improvement exchange sounds appealing to an extent as it accomplishes the goal of the property being in an LLC, but can you buy the LLC itself with the asset?

Quite often they are embarrassed by their situation and the prospect of less visitors and a shorter process sounds more appealing than scraping for that extra dollar and inviting the circus over.

I'm great at money/math/analysis (my day job, senior analyst with 14 years exp), and my wife is a very good creative with an eye for design/aesthetics.