You can protest by May 15th of next year to have a hearing to reduce 2022 taxes but if your purchase is not less than the tax value you have little chance of a reduction

As you replace them, be sure to point out how easily sound travels between units, stress the quiet hours, etc.

Like - in a down market, they can reduce your assessment - but, the rate goes up.

However, it does not help your case to find a partner when you keep stressing how you know nothing and are totally new.You really need to at least demonstrate that you have done gotten some education and know what you are talking about.....and have a good deal in hand.

Within the first 3 months we only had 1 paying tenant and no one wanted to rent from us even at a reduced amount, but we were getting a lot of applications and people were paying the application fee whiched helped us pay our mortgage.

This is something you can try at home so you don’t have to stress with your tenants watching.

You can't put a property under contract from the first phone call in reality because there is always in-person due diligence being done by someone, often to reduce the price of that first "no-look" offer.

I think you'll find the tax structure of being self employed (along with the obvious freedom, stress, exhilaration and all the other adjectives that come with a massive change in life) favorable to your former W2 life. 

Time consuming at times, stressful, frustrating, but doable.

As it builds, it reduces the value of your cash, PV and equity.