Now granted, I'm sure my situation and my properties are significantly different from yours, but the same maintenance principle that holds up in medicine holds up in landlording, just like you, your house needs a poorly paid primary care physician first to direct the flow of expensive specialists afterwards, and the better the primary care physician the more money you'll save in care costs.I apologize for the rambling but I'm in a hurry.

Do not put an artificial price on the deed but instead a $10 value or whatever minimum is customary in your jurisdiction, if not your property appraiser may reassess the value of the property to the max allowed, voiding any tax rise protection that some states have (I don't know if it is the case in your state).

I am in medicine so new to investing and finance.

Interest rates are artificially low.  

It’s an artificial distinction, and, frankly incorrect.You can flip a house that makes you a big profit.

I think where we may disagree is that this system applies to all...most people have no idea how these games are played.My logic is basically that the wealthy can afford to navigate the tax maze and thus pay little or no tax on assets that are artificially raised in price because of devaluing of the currency.

Food and medicine or not. 

I'd suggest you take a pass...Would you let a doctor operate on you if he's "read about" modern medicine, but not seen a patient in 20+ years?

I have a tenant who informed me after moving in that her child takes medicine to help him go to the toilet however, it causes the toilet to clog everytime which then leads to the toilet having to be rodded out because the bowel is too large to be plunged.

Much of the price run up at that time was due to fraudulent, or artificial demand.