Can stay in the same budget and use the excess to invest or trade up.

There are a high number of CPA firms that do not want to get involved outside of the FYI to their clients, and some state boards are saying that a CPA advising related to this registration is an "unlicensed practice of law" given it is not under Title 26 - income taxes - the only place where CPAs and EAs are specifically authorized to interpret law. 

Are you only referring to damages in excess of the deposit?

This is yet another tale of a building inspector who feels the need to assert his authority by constantly reminding everyone, "I am the Inspector." 

It desn't take a lot for someone who knows a little to view someone who knows slightly more as an "authority".7.

A good rule of thumb is to keep 3-6 months of operating expenses in your rental account as a cushion.Once you’ve got that covered, you can start investing the excess.

Code § 1701j–3 - Preemption of due-on-sale prohibitions(1)the term “due-on-sale clause” means a contract provision which authorizes a lender, at its option, to declare due and payable sums secured by the lender’s security instrument if all or any part of the property, or an interest therein, securing the real property loan is sold or transferred without the lender’s prior written consent; 

If the airport authority would deed the buildings to me, it would cause them to be entered on the tax roll.

I looked back at my tax returns when I was doing the conversions from my traditional IRA to my Roth IRA and realized I had converted up to the limit of my standard deduction allowing that amount to be tax free, but the excess above that that I converted each year was at the lowest tax bracket, so while I did convert some money tax free each of those years I DID IN FACT pay more than a few cents in taxes on the amount above the deduction.  

MiThank you, I believe virtually all markets are over valued, but over the long term many (including my primary market) will have appreciation in excess of CPI.