There are auctions to sell cars, police auctions, tax impounded auctions, antique auctions, etc.

If you can rent it for $2,000/month, after fees, taxes, and potential maintenance costs, you’d still make a decent passive income.

Quote from @Erick Pena: A "good" rental property is one that covers all expenses (mortgage, taxes, insurance, maintenance, property management fees, and any other costs) and still leave a surplus (commonly referred to as cash flow).Calculate cash flow as: Cash Flow = Rental Income − Operating Expenses − DebtThere's much more to it, but that's the basic idea.

This might make sense, but again, you are just deferring the taxes and now pushing tax from capital gains to ordinary income. 

One caution when using crypto to acquire property is being aware the tax ramifications are identical to if you converted to cash first.

The houses would be looking at I'd imagine would be about 7 to 800 k taxes would be about 4K hire a year.

Not that I'm a proponent of borrowing just for a tax break, but the interest is a deductible expense. 

I looked into this as well since I'm getting terribly bent over on my w-2 taxes. 

Work with a lot of expats and foreign nationals in this space tax related.

Besides lists from the tax assessor, how are you finding your deals?