Also, this is why you pay for a good real estate and business focused account.... so you don't have to try to figure out something that is not your expertise or specialty. 

There are also additional costs of operating and maintaining an LLC, like separate bank accounts, annual report filings, tax filings, etc.2.

You can offset the passive losses from one rental against the positive income from another rental.Therefore, you will likely have a net $3,000 loss across all the three rentals which you would carry forward.If your depreciation was more than $3,000, you basically made cash-flow or rental income that was not taxed, which is good.Best of luck

You can win most tax appeals when your taxes are just out of whack for comparable properties so if you can find examples of similar properties with lower taxes, that is the only way you will win.

The way that I think about it is that these losses are future tax benefits.

I have looked around online, but haven't had any luck yet, i have local real estate agent there, but they are not expertised on those distressed properties.  

End up with all cash and little to no tax.Your wealth snowball ends up a lot larger 10 years down the road when you make and keep your money in a more tax efficient way.

I'm in this strange position of being out of state and unfortunatley not having the time to visit or gain personal expertise.

My probate expertise is limited to the many THOUSANDS of deals that I’ve done in California since 1978.

Then start sharing your expertise in small posts every day, at least one post.