That's very important regardless of where you live.Also, it's very astute of you to be aware of the effects of inflation on savings, and the negative position that puts you in. 

The odds are that it cannot be assigned. 

Advertised for a house sitter to watch the property and do odd jobs for a few weeks. 

The city adjusts the payments for inflation every year.

I've seen lots of inflated ARV's and rehab estimates...lots.

I have confidence in you.You can either get a discount on the property reflected in the Option to Buy, or you can base what the TB pays you on a future inflated value...or a combination of both.  

As long as this country has inflation, we will always see rent increases annually of 3%  In other markets it could be 2 - 2.5%    As long as inflation goes up, rents will continue to go up. 

It is pretty easy to hire people for defined jobs, but the small odds and ends are tough. 

That being said, I have always been oddly obsessed with Real Estate and am looking to get into it.

You've sure spend a LOT of time today trying to prove why/ how you should knowingly report a return that doesn't clearly state the actual amount of money your business made for the purposes of obtaining a loan you really can't afford because you inflated your income.Here's what I've literally seen people do: Leave off expenses to get a loan- then switch tax prepares to amend pretending they didn't know about those expenses so that now they pay less tax by amending to claim those expenses.