I purchases a property and got the taxes lowered by getting it assessed to purchase price. 

Do we still need to file a forcible entry detainer to get in if it looks like she’s moved out?

Get the toilet installed yourself and charge the tenant the lower of what the tenant expected to pay or actual cost.  

,Real estate pricing is very localized and while Santa Clara County is seeing pricing lower than expectations, homes in the peninsula and SF are still rising.

The response I received is as follows "Your Appraiser is and was aware that sales 1 and 2 (the two units in my condo that were used for the appraisal) have lower level finish It was included in the GLA  due to the fact that these units were all finished at the time of conversion (the condo was created and basement finished in 2005 when a developer bought the former mansion and split it up into units) with similar material and quality.

A little lower than asking (140K and 120K), but with 10K earnest money each.

I paid it off last year.I've had 2 others with same terms, but lower rates. 

Thus, the vacancy rate for this area is lower than 2%.

It wasn't anywhere near the magic ratio of 1.5 rents/purchase price but with a slight bump in rents and if they accepted a lower offer, we might get the ratio pretty close to 1.25 which I was ecstatic about in this market.

However, if they wanted to justify it, I'm sure the justification is that renters cause more problems than owners; renters tend to live then shorter periods of time and there are expenses when someone moves in/out such as extra trash pick-ups, programming them into an entry system, cleaning costs as the move in/out can be messy around the building, light damage to the building, scheduling of the freight elevator, cost of providing additional notices as now the tenant and owner need to receive copies, etc.