Also, the re-sale price tends to contractually decrease for years after purchase, never going up.  

State the increase or decrease % and be done with it.  

Thanks for instructions for the alert feature, it's something I've been using since the beginning & I had to decrease the amount of places I was getting alerts from haha I was getting like 30 emails a day.

Are there ways to decrease the expenses and/or increase the income? 

Your suspended losses will decrease your gain when you sell the house.

He stated he would do work in exchange for a decrease in rent.

This would let you buy for 3-5% down and if done right, decrease your housing costs.

Unemployment numbers are decreasing.

or does it only make sense to decrease your living expense? 

If property taxes were abolished, would you decrease your tenants rents?