Welcome to BP @Levi Gardner !

I'm speaking from personal experience here - our first primary residence wasn't a great rental, and we ended up selling it (and paying commissions, excise tax, etc!)

Legal residents can have their wages garnished and bank accounts levied. 

. :) If it's far, make some excises to come visit.

@Levi Bennett glad to hear it!  

@Levi T.  

Their study found no flight of such affluent people in spite of the multiple tax increases the state has levied on high-income earners over the last 10 years.Tracking credit histories: In another study, the UC California Policy Lab examined 16 years of credit history going through 2020.

The government here though didnt go as far as enacting new special taxes to levy on foreign investors as a way of reducing foreign investor buying activity, which apparently is what was blamed for (among other things) the inflated housing price trend in Toronto, Vancouver etc..

Has it turned a corner, yes... but again, not fully.For God sakes- the NYSE just warned NY that it is prepared to leave if they levy a stock transfer tax which a majority of NY'ers supporting the tax.While New York has remained a center of gravity for the financial industry, many employees of “Wall Street” firms are migrating to Florida, Texas and other states with hospitable tax policies.

So its important we figure out which income is characterized under this tax as well.WA is nice because there is no capital gains and or state income tax, however RE excise taxes are around 1.78% of the gross sales price and sales tax is about as high as LA county in CA.I prefer a non tax state but if the deal is "good enough," overall I would still consider a tax state like CA if a quick sale wasn't in the short term game plan because I wouldn't want my long term capital gains to be subject to the state income tax.