You may be able to appeal your new assessment on the house to get it reduced for future years.

If you have it fully renovated, including mechanicals, roof, etc.

How can we reduce our risk and ensure the job is done right?

This team should include professionals like agents, lenders, contractors, and property managers. 

What does your typical list of these things include?

The fund's sponsor then directs all of the fund's operations, including property management.

@Derrick Lind,  depending how you define "Title search" it may not even include the information of whether the property is land locked or not.

And my intention is to make one larger investment each year, do a cost-seg, and thereby reduce my income and tax for the year to zero.Based on this, I would qualify for a SEP IRA or SDIRA (are they the same thing?)

Get to know different strategies including buy and hold, fix and flip, wholesaling as well as defining your objectives.

In my opinion however if I have to worry about the tenant tamping (on what could be a locked box) to reduce their <$200 power bill, I probably have bigger tenant problems.