If so, you could buy rental properties and utilize cost segregation to reduce your current tax bill.

It costs so much to sell a property and buy another one, and is such a hassle, that if I were in this situation I'd strongly consider just paying the special assessment and keeping a property that's otherwise great.

Getting to an asset manager to buy a note is not impossible, but definitely not easy either.

There apparently was a guy that was very active on BP with over 4,000 posts, regarding buying subject to properly, but has either been booted off or canceled his account.

About 50% of investors buying a tax certificate think they’re buying the real property2.

Neither of us live there and I can’t buy him out right now.

One thing that makes comparisons hard is the different names for fees, etc - and if its a buy down of rate and all that stuff. 

So, if you're ever buying a location, see when the last rate increase was, to determine if there might be an impact to your occupancy levels.  

I always felt families buy homes and retirees buy homes. 

If you're planning to buy and hold, you may want to bring in a partner or private lender in on the deal.