Which is fair, most of the scum bags in this industry make my life more difficult.  

That's a good thing to keep in mind if you are planning to go that route, especially if you wait until later in life....

I know the city well and have lived here my entire life, so I'm not focusing in on just one area, rather better deals.

You have owned in years 5 to 15 of ownership and my buyer will have all these repairs from items reaching the end of their life expectancy so their numbers will not look close to what you are reporting.

That applies in all areas of life, not just REI.

<<==>>“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan.

I have a busy life as it is with the job, wife and small kids, so I need to start slow (or perhaps go crazy and dive deep, lol).

If you want to calculate taxes yourself it's pretty straight forward, add up the total millage for both Summer & Winter, Divide the SEV by 1000 then Multiply the two numbers for your annual taxes.Tom A already linked the State calculator which makes life really easy, but it's still nice to know what the numbers all mean and how to manually calculate this stuff.

Well that makes me feel like i just wasted 4 hours of my life.

Does the cost have to be out of my pocket to depreciate it over its life?