Will I be able to "capture" that depreciation to decrease my capital gains from the sale? 

Evaluate historical and current vacancy rates, aiming for decreasing trends.Demographics: For younger populations, focus on proximity to parks and schools.

This allows our buyers to purchase the property, make the necessary improvements, and then choose to either rent it at market rate or sell it.Selling a property without providing at least two exit strategies for the buyer significantly decreases our pool of buyers.Feel free to reach out, you could send me the numbers and I can give you my opinion on what would be a good deal to a buyer with keeping the tenants. 

Among the top 50 U.S. apartment markets, 17 with over 2.8% inventory growth experienced a 2.2% decrease in rents.

I would seek out another CPA in the meantime to see if there is someone else that will align with your taxable income, and you can benefit from using that person by decreasing your taxable income this year and going forward. 

Sinking interest rates and signaling from fed of rate decreases has pushed buyers back in to the market. 

Rents have decreased this past 6 months here so you may be surprised. 

Haha...While no one has ever asked me to discount rents because of furniture, they do ask for a big decrease in rent sometimes.

So, while some labor costs may decrease slightly or flatline, we are likely NOT going to see the a reduction in real prices we saw for some materials.

As a mortgage is paid down and/or appreciation takes place your ROI decreases.