Check out your county clerks office (online).  

Hi @Timothy Daniels,I am an active investor and own multi-family, SFR, office, retail, and land on Whidbey Island. 

So even if your values decrease, your taxes may still increase.Working in a tax office, I can tell you, that house you are looking at could very well end up costing more in taxes at 75k next year than it does at 92k this year.

We met at his Wilmington office, discussed options and moved forward.  

It probably wont make much of a difference but it cant hurt either.In the future you can try doing these two things1) When contractors go to home depot or any of our suppliers to order material on our account, the suppliers are not allowed to moved forward without calling our office and getting authorization for the order.  

any type (office, retail, apts, industrial, a few acres of land on the corner, etc), any condition even if there are no windows.  

Ask the loan officer to give you the max amount for which you qualify so you can use that as a limit in your shopping.

if the lease agreement is with the PM then go to the office and ask to see the PM agreement that governs your lease. 

Portfolio banks don't sell their loans, therefore they are the final say in how the loans are underwritten.Once you start talking to a bank, ask the loan officer about what metrics the bank's loan policy looks at.

I called the county assessor's office and explained that I know other landlords locally who pay a far lower percentage of assessed value than what I was charged.