Bogdan,Do you have any data to support this assertion, or is it just your feeling?

Some of this was clearing the assertion that the property appraiser made that the sale was unqualified, ie. not an arms length transaction, which it truly was.I'm expect much depends on your locale...but here at least...I found the county officials willing to listen to reason.  

While you assert without any evidence (okay a single data point) that leases are "soaring", there has been evidence brought to this forum numerous times that there is an oversupply of high-end apartments coming on line this year. 

THAT is when you need to assert your initiative.

One of the things he mentioned was that you have to assert your rights or you can end up losing them.  

However, the true stupidity lies in making assertions about 10% COC returns on $30K investments being better than a million dollar property appreciating 3%. 

Well that was a metric crapton of reading, but here are the nuggets I pulled out of it:  (Emphasis Mine as bold and underline)In the link you provided, I could find nothing to back up your assertion, but found the following sections that back up mine.  

Protecting your asset might mean being a little assertive. 

I make no assertions nor hold any opinions about what decision making paradigm one should use to make the choice if they should pay a QI or attempt to go it alone; that's up to them. 

Another false assertion on this topic is that QE operations are "printing money".