Treasuries.

The millage rates are listed on the Michigan Treasury website so it is not difficult to estimate how much the taxes will rise when the homestead rate is removed.

In addition to this, the federal reserve has been telegraphing their desire to start reducing their massive $4.5 trillion balance sheet assets of treasury bonds and mortgage backed securities as soon as this year.

I certainly recognize there is room for disagreement, which is why this has always been a very contentious area of the law and why the IRS and Treasury have rewritten the regulations in this area numerous times providing a number of new safe harbors provisions (i.e., specifically to avoid fighting over this issue on audit).

I would agree that you probably can't buy title insurance....and even on resale it is normally tough to get it before a 2 year period...either due to redemption rules or foreclosure challenge issues.Some auctions like treasury auctions that give quit claim deeds may take 4 years before you can get title insurance.

US Treasury liens, usually, IRS, if file after another lien was filed, can be removed from property attachment via a foreclosure IF the government agency holding the lien was given sufficient notice as determined by Federal law.  

Maybe you know this but the Treasury Department does not pay you interest on that money if you leave it with them over the 27.5 or 39 years. ;-)   

Did you vet that they were a specialist in real estate when hiring him/her.If you are both arguing on a specific topic, you both can go through the tax codes, treasury regulations to provide support of why one is right / wrong.Section 469 discusses passive activities.Best of luck.

There is specific documentation from the treasury that describes in detail what a bank must do at a minimum to identity a customer.

Regarding the premise of the discussion in protecting oneself in a rising interest rate environment, it may not be as straightforward as:rising interest rates = higher cap rates = weaker property valuesA couple of reasons for this would be that the spreads between the 10 year treasury yield and current cap rates are significantly higher than the historical average (500+ basis points) vs. an average of 300 basis over the last 20 years.