Such as leaving a stack of them in a closet as a proactive measure to encourage them to perform that type of maintenance?

However, I have been told that my cost basis is $200k (ignoring recapture) and the gain would be measured by the selling price $500k.

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The listing agent is telling my client that they need to measure the property before they list it and said that the county property can not be used to determine the sqft of the property as it's notoriously wrong.

Probably no more kicking that can down the road.I would guess Miami has much greater demand for both STR and MTR than Austin, but have no idea if people measure that. 

While there are more complicated ways to measure this, the most practical way if you care about answering the question "how much do I make every month" is just income - expenses = cashflow.

The same exact measure has failed two other times with largely the same legislators.

Cap Rate is nothing more than a yardstick to measure the current market sentiment. 

Go into your basement and measure the height of the bottom stair that sits on the concrete.