As far as the housing market, they never take into account how the increased taxes will cause this to be a wash.   

What was he saying?

Get the biggest commercial washing machine you can find to clean the money, toss the gun in the nearest river, sell the house, leave town, change your name, enjoy the money as you look over your shoulder for the rest of your life......

Like washing machine overloads or garage door misuse.And if you paid $500 for all those repairs count yourself lucky. 

<3 and the taxes in theory should wash since I use that next property and depreciate it against earned income.

Hell I bought my car for less than 10k, and I still take it to get the oil changed and washed once a month ~$40. 40/10000 = 0.4% monthly investment in my car.

When i had a large complex i had a guy show up driving a old Studebaker with no back glass in it and it look like it never been to a car wash.

So if you are buying right it should come out in the wash.

Yep, crayons will cover the scratch and not wash off easily because of the wax (my tenants have not scrubbed it off yet.)

Have the landlord handle those pesky maintenance issues, roofing repairs, deluge of water coming from the washing machine on the 3rd floor that just exploded through to the kitchen below (yes, this just happened to me in my home.