This might make sense, but again, you are just deferring the taxes and now pushing tax from capital gains to ordinary income. 

Wash the walls. 

If they do, then you can likely find another tenant for that amount fairly easily, as I would assume the entire town's taxes are up- so if someone really wanted to be in town, that price is the new normal.If your taxes increased that substantially in a C neighborhood, your tenants would way more likely give push back for that type of increase- even though you're not being greedy, you're just imposing the same raise you were given.Often the buyer who had the "well, the numbers are better" mentality is only looking at year 1. 

When I was 19 I was washing dishes out of high school in Columbus and then decided to buy a single-family rental.

In fact, many, though not all, of these “experts” are washed up and no longer active in the market.

I guess I can keep it as a STR and push my way through, it would just be nice if it was something that worked for someone right now and helped me take a step back for a bit, and go back to STR when I have more ability to keep up with it!

But personally, sometimes the best strategy is protecting what you've built rather than pushing for more.

There thinking some clean-up-fairy comes swooping in with a broom, washes the ashes away and then Bob The Builder n all his friends comes hot on the hells, Bing-Bang-Boom all is rebuilt and were singing kumbayas by Christmas.......Reality is it took about 10 years to rebuild post katrina. 

At some point that market becomes saturated, pushing revenues down and the extra juice won't be worth the squeeze. 

I’m going to pull some solid comps to back up the $130K valuation and push back on the report.