You will be charged the entire $2k, but the seller reimburses you for his part via a $1k credit at closing.You simply make a record of this $1k credit, and whenever you make the $2k tax payment, you apply the credit, and the remaining $1k is deductible.If, on the other hand, this adjustment was for something else - like a one-time charge for specific improvements to shared property - then it's a different story.

You're a "cash basis" accounting taxpayer meaning you recognize rent revenue at the time it's received.

does the approved tenant (for one of the 2 units in a legal duplex) have legal grounds to be demanding the owner's (landlord's) taxpayer id? 

I did try to check the online County Recorders website for tax payments etc but it doesn't show any owner names.

If the taxpayer (or its tenants or agents) refuses to deliver possession, then the investor must give written notice to vacate, wait six months, and then file an ejectment lawsuit.

To qualify for the Residence test Both spouses—or a single taxpayer if he's not married—must have lived in the home for at least two of the last five years preceding the sale to qualify.

NONE of them are proposing doing away with their free meal tickets at taxpayer expense.

The government has proven the only thing it does well is protect bad workers from being fired, waste huge sums of taxpayer money, and not tell the truth!

I didn't particularly like the idea of getting locked into a 20-year contract, the extra liability, the taxpayer subsidy the company receives, and the house becoming an eye soar. 

@Danny Price, Medicaid and other lienholders have to pay the same redemption charges as the taxpayer.