Right now we have $160,000 and rising cash flow, not to mention we are exponentially increasing the value of these apartment complexes the Multifamily Millions way by David Lindahl. 

I'm worried this will cause a large "increase" in income for 2017 and a large "loss/deduction" in 2018.

@Lane Kawaoka Overall, this is a stable rental market with slow rent increases (lots of supply).

My personal residence has increased in price in the last few years and you probably know this doesn't occur often in Japan.

Your IRA makes money from that property's rental proceeds as well as the possibility of appreciation instead of stock or mutual fund dividends and increases in value.  

When you buy an apartment complex you look for ways to increase that NOI which in turn increases the value of the property  (AKA forced appreciation). 

And how big of a DMM list you think is good to start with to increase my probability of a getting a response and getting quality leads?

If your taxes get raise, increase rents next time the lease come up.

The basis of the property increases 10% of your original gain at the 5 year mark, another 5% at the 7 year mark, and after 10 years the gain is capped off. 

Yes the property does get the mortgage and such paid (a slight loss each month, but just increased the rent so for the short term renter we have we are making a positive cash flow, but only for a few more months).I will definitely be asking questions and trying to get our portfolio growing.