One of the advantages of investing in International real estate is precisely to have currency diversification, meaning not having all your assets in the same currency or all your eggs in the same basket.

@Lance Trezona I like the targeted/more precise nature of that method. 

Goals for this deal:- secure precisely 3 units within 1 mile of Rillito Bike Path @ Dodge Blvd: easy to access all major Tucson road cycling routes- property layout functional for STR: adequate parking, separate backyard spaces, etc- walking distance to Brandi Fenton Dog Park & Tucson Hop Shop (best bar in Tucson)- pay house cleaner & landscaper to periodically clean primary residence out of AirBnB income (still working towards that!)

This is precisely why I need to approach the seller's agent.

Your property taxes can only go up 2% a year unless you sell it (reassessed at market value for the new buyer) or add new construction/major renovation (reassessment but there's no precise formula I can find online for San Francisco Bay Area.

Sometimes the tenants win on really trivial procedural things those who think they can self-manager get wrong, such as precise timing for rent increase paperwork (LA has rent control). 

The Silicon Valley DOT BOMB explosion was precisely on the issue that year-on-year there were no earnings and the venture capital investors saw no light at the end of the road and called in their ante.Personally, I evaluate the Cash Flow as my sole discriminant for purchase.

More precisely, it's a 3 bed 2 bath SFH with a detached cottage in the back. 

With spreadsheets.I'm a machinist - expect me to be painfully precise.

That possibility is precisely what I want to mitigate.So, upon further research, I found a palatable amount of unpaid taxes -- and the county owned all of the certificates -- no one had bought them.