Towns in New Jersey can be wildly crooked and will try to assess you for things they missed on prior renovations before you even bought the property, which technically they can do.

Many banks handling tax escrow accounts for mortgages have mistakenly thought there was one tax due twice/year or totally missed one of the taxes.Investors should research the SEV and the Non-Homestead property tax millage rates to project what the property taxes will be after adjustment.

Quote from @Don Konipol: We have a saying in Texas that seems to apply to the subject of this thread“Big hat, No cattle”..Classic response @Don Konipol What a great missed opportunity to promote his project, but sadly unrealized.And for those of you out there in T.V. land, there are many ways to verify Everything in the good ole' U.S.A.

What is really missing are the numbers, or spreadsheets that can illustrate the savings. 

Negotiating felt like a game of chess—except I was playing against a grandmaster, and my queen was missing.

Via form 3115 you can do a depreciation catch up and capture all the missed depreciation that you would have received through a cost segregation study. 

Since the LLC doesn't own the rental you're missing out on the asset protection that was originally intended.

If you miss on fence, landscaping, etc, these are small and you can recover. 

I missed that first post so I’m going to read it now.  

So what am I missing?