You need to review the assessment record for your property as there may be errors. 

Are you actively investing or have an active portfolio?

Take time to learn through military-focused resources like Military House Hacking or Active Duty Passive Income, and connect with other military investors online or on base.

Your VA loan will be crucial to your real estate investing growth, especially since it affords you the potential opportunity to own more than one property, depending on your overall allotment.For active military personnel, that conundrum of where to invest and where you will end up is always part of the issue that sometimes causes analysis paralysis so it's great you have one in VA Beach already.

Which is a tax when you do an active business in your IRA but it is essentially the same thing. 

Did you write off those special assessments in 2010 and 2012? 

We bought a property that we feel is assessed by the our local government too high.

After being surprised by that activity I looked into the records for properties around my parcel and found that years ago a developer had originally bought the two parcels in one sale.

So depending on how much you pay for it, you can assess your cashflow.

I’ve spent time assessing areas locally and identified Richmond, Pearland, Conroe, Montgomery and Katy as prospective areas to invest in.