I realigned the lock and the bore in the jam and the amount of jamming has decreased and the battery life has increased. 

First cost decreases always lag cost increases in terms of speed of change.

LA didn't have as much of an upswing in home values over the last ten years compared to the other areas but I also don't want to buy at the top of the market (which is San Diego right now, although may be doubtful it decreases - some places up 110%).

This as well as a number of other factors have increased the inventory of annual rentals thus decreasing the rent prices drastically.

Second year distributions rise to 5.27%, third year 7.27%, according to the projections.Those projections may be at risk, for many reasons: the recent huge increase in interest rates -- increasing the cost of loans and decreasing valuations, insurance costs have skyrocketed, real estate taxes are up, labor and material costs for repairs & renovations have increased, etc.On the plus side, the majority of the ODC funds were designed to be high value add projects with plans to increase operating efficiencies, add tenants and raise rents.  

For example lets say you are gonna make $50k on this and the delta on taxes might be $7500 which that price if it is November 2025 when you have the delta in taxes recouped may not be worth it if home values are decreasing. 

We have $100k cash right now and we’re trying to figure out if it’s worth it to put the cash we have into refinancing Property 2 based on income generated, decreased value, etc.

I would benefit from the decreased cost of living (effectively paying reduced or ~hopefully~ no rent), but also would take a greater role in managing the property seeing as I'd be physically living there.

Values do not decrease based on whether a buyer broker is involved.

We have had two different contractors try to fix using various types of cement/epoxy while digging up outside area and they can not seem to get it right but have decreased the water a bit.