Your neighbor s as Sean mentioned, have a lower tax bill likely due to the fact that they live there and there are laws that prohibit the tax assessor from raising the property values more than 3% per year when it's your primary residence okay, it's also fairly common for your tax bill to significantly increase in the tax year after you purchase it.

A lot of section 8 renters go straight to their case workers with issues like this and it becomes a lot bigger deal than it needs to be.Just do the treatment, cover up the holes, and move on.

Quote from @Nathan Gesner: Unkempt lawns, trashy or broken down vehicles, mattresses and trash on empty lots, boarded up houses, bars on windows, dealers and hookers on the corners, the lack of stores or gas stations, occupied properties are dilapidated, etc.Or when Google maps shows stuff like this: If those are drug zombies, as they appear to be, that's an "F" class neighborhood where nobody pays rent and structure burnouts are common.

Quote from @Sarah Kensinger: In some properties we might stash some under the bathroom sink in case a guest forgot theirs, but it's not something common we do.

Three, the tenants will be easier to manage because there won’t be any bickering or disputes between them and other tenants in the building which is common with multifamily properties. 

Taxes are calculated on the gain (e.g. sale price - purchase price + expenses, broken down fairly clearly by @Jake Baker) not just on the sale price.The tax treatment on sale of a Primary Residence vs.

Ryan Sorry to hear of your situation - I will say it is somewhat common due to the market run up back then.Shoot me your info and let me take a look at all. 

Several factors indicate the company is not that concerned about efficiency or ease of customer process: the website, a process that seemed to focus on one issue at a time instead of all issues at once, and consistently poor communications and lack of common sense from the loan analyst we were assigned.It started off very well with the initial point of contact, Austin Lornson, who did a fine job of explaining the general refinancing process, responding quickly and thoroughly to our questions.

What is more common is someone saying they have everything, calling it "easy" and it's all just BS sales pitch.

While it's something I think is not taken seriously enough by society and the law, it's just far to common amongst all classes of people.