Firestone park and Goodyear Heights are nice areas that get good rental rates and have lots of demand. 

California prices are really unaffordable at the same time the state has consistently had outmigration of native residents for something like a decade and even negative population growth recently whereas Texas has grown substantially. 

There is ALWAYS a demand for ocean-side properties in FL, and these are not only retirees.

They cannot continue a lawsuit on your behalf if you have not authorized it.I would send them a short demand:"You have five business days to stop the lawsuit and turn over all documents, funds, and anything else pertaining to my property.

If they do, then you can likely find another tenant for that amount fairly easily, as I would assume the entire town's taxes are up- so if someone really wanted to be in town, that price is the new normal.If your taxes increased that substantially in a C neighborhood, your tenants would way more likely give push back for that type of increase- even though you're not being greedy, you're just imposing the same raise you were given.Often the buyer who had the "well, the numbers are better" mentality is only looking at year 1. 

Heating costs and interest rates dont help the numbers but demand is high and resale numbers have been impressive

In the self storage market, they have ratios based on population to determine demand.

I think the unsuccessful and struggling units who have not jumped ship yet will continue to do so, leading to less supply, increasing demand, and a better year for the successful units. 

And the demand and value for that by those who'd use it.  

This implies if you sold and bought the exact same house your current property tax would increase substantially.