We also were able to get the property taxes reduced by filing a complaint with the county.

You can agree to represent yourself and reduce your offer by the percentage that the buyer's agent would get.

You don't know what material costs were, what labor costs were, or John's scope to flip the property. 

Quote from @Christopher Stevens: Does anyone know how we can write this investment off to help reduce our tax liability?

An option for you could be to go with a DSCR loan with a reduced prepayment penalty period so that you can get funds soon and if you want to refinance next year or the following due to lower rates or wanting more LTV than you're able to do so.You should look at this one with the mindset of:1) What would my expenses be once I refi vs what they are now?

It's NOT a marketed messaging on pricing alone, it's not on limited or reduced services, because as they know that would kill the business model.     

I suggested to them we could split the costs 50/50 of installing the electric, the garbage disposal, and the labor for installing it as I would be more comfortable having my guy do it.

This year I sold a rental property with a capital gains of 60kI’m looking to reinvest in something that will reduce my tax liability.

It reduces the “bouncing ball” effect of tasks being passed between departments. 

I'm pretty concerned to get into this now as Project 2025 is pretty clear about gutting HUD and many social services- the program may be greatly reduced during Trump's term, hard to say.