Just because you do it does not make it OK to do and does not make it OK to share it as advice for others. 30% is generally considered to be safe, but it's based on interpreting examples in the Treasury Regulations and not on some formal rule.We all make mistakes.

The law can certainly be "interpreted" - especially with judges.

The suggested 3% appreciation could also just be interpreted as 3% inflation.

Ask the condo association what they’re interpretation is. 

Did you mean you added an additional hundred AMP service or you upgraded your 100 AMP to a 200 AMP or am I interpreting this wrong.Also would you recommend baseboard or the recessed wall heaters (i.e.

Make sure you are OVERLY NICE to them as they are ultimately the ones that are going to interpret the building code for you (and yes the building code can be interpreted... sadly).

There is a lot of information out there it seems, if you know how to interpret it correctly (which I may not be).  

The problem is not the accounting system but interpreting the data from closings.

Most mom and pop landlords are left to interpret this with way too little insight. 

On a side note, I'd tread lightly down this path, there's a lot of grey area here that could very easily be interpreted as a fair housing violation.