Here is your tip:Buy low and sell high, also don't eat the yellow snow.

We plan to remove them all to protect from tax increases on our current primary, but I am afraid that now that the other properties won't have homesteads, we may see skyrocketing tax bills and it will eat into already small cash flow from rental income.Does anyone have advice for how to handle this situation other than just increasing rent?

So after long term cap gains tax eats about $20k.

But, they do get to eat a lot of pizza.Debt prevents you from becoming an investor. 

Those things eat your introvertness & lack of sales background for lunch.

Our team will be eating duck, goose and a lot of eggs. 

As an investor myself, I'd say property taxes can eat into cash flow in certain areas and some neighborhoods are gentrifying fast which means you really need to know your submarkets.

You can't have your cake and eat it too.

Also the school districts have been increasing property taxes in A LOT of investment properties thus eating some of our profits. 

Hours of servicing the loans in all their aspects quickly eats up the points we received at the beginning of each mortgage & it feels like we're doing all the work for no compensation.