Your neighbor s as Sean mentioned, have a lower tax bill likely due to the fact that they live there and there are laws that prohibit the tax assessor from raising the property values more than 3% per year when it's your primary residence okay, it's also fairly common for your tax bill to significantly increase in the tax year after you purchase it.

Without rent control i either raise their rent far above market rents so they give me notice (my preferred method) or i simply do not renew their lease.

I'm born and raised in San Francisco and started off as an OOS investor as well back in 2021. 

I have lived there part-time and raised 2 children there.

Implementing a value add strategy, which will raise rents and force appreciation has been an unfair advantage in just about any market condition. 

Now I raised claim Immideatly.

You claim to receive no remuneration for this from the syndicates you are pitching- but only time will tell if you're the only guy not getting paid to raise money for others.

A lot of money has been raised in recent years to invest in this thesis.

If you were raised in church, as I was, and taught to hold ministers in high esteem, it is hard to believe that a “man of God” could be so duplicitous.

If you're busy running a ranch and raising a family, you don't want calls at 11 pm to unclog a toilet.