Perhaps a different administration might look at the budget and try and balance it in part by making large military spending cuts which would translate to a significant decrease in personnel.

To add to the struggle, there are reports (and BP blog posts) that show that rents are actually decreasing in some of the more metropolitan areas as millennials become part of the next wave of suburbanization.

OR if I got short term financing for 6 months to increase income/decrease expenses and get a better value which makes a refinance possible. 

At 80% LTV this would be around 130K to borrowThis strategy makes sense to me because it decreases my expenses while having around the same amount of money to invest.

The good news is that if there is an impending downturn, you aren't holding any properties that decrease in value.

You can even get the buyer to pay up to 4% in closing costs (towards points) allowing you to INCREASE the purchase price while DECREASING the monthly mortgage. 

Have you done stress tests (worse case, best case, average case scenarios) on rent decreases, sudden expenses, increased vacancy rates, sudden and large rises in interest rates, property taxes, insurance on your existing properties and potential deals? 

Phrased another way - is there a reliable way to determine the price of privacy offered by a SFP and decrement this price as privacy decreases?

A price decrease is a price decrease, but compared to most of the country, that is pretty amazing.

You could still count the above market rent towards decreasing the purchase price, it would just be that a normal down payment on that purchase price will be required.So this probably isn't much use in hotter markets like the Bay Area, but for those of you out in places where rent doesn't go up a zillion percent per year, this could be viable.