He is wondering if he should take the 300k as a price reduction (leading to boot from 1031 as he does not want to go higher than 25% down payment) or if he can avoid boot by keeping the price the same and take the 300k in a capex escrow account with the title company to be used for repairs over the next year (title company and bank are ok with this).

I am loosing weight and it is as fast as microwave food.

Yes, you read that correctly, the appeal can go either way or stay the same, you lose if the taxes go up.My brother appealed taxes on a house in Philadelphia and got a 12% reduction using the guy below:Jerald GoldfineRE Tax Associates of Pennsylvania LLCGood luck.

Not including the principal reduction & tax benefits in your "flow".

It’s not because of your genes that we don’t lose weight.

not sure about your experience but the second loan you got sounds like a great deal.most lenders really price by experience to get the really low rates very few will qualify for the best rates..Experience has more weight that fico in the HML world. 

Reduce labor expenses, you increase disposable incomes, reduce cost of goods, reducing cost of finished material goods, creating a compounding effect of savings that all culminate in a significant reduction in cost of housing production, increasing production capacity, increasing affordability, invigorating economic activity, raising tax revenues via the Walmart method of volume over profit margin..... 

Can you prove property value reduction?

(but who knows how fast or slow that decline will be.)so will the rise of AI coincide with a natural reduction in the workforce?

A great mortgage lender is worth their weight in gold (or whatever loan amount requested.)