Of course I have no complaint about my assessed value being low because that's less I'm spending on property taxes! 

why waste your time and effort on this... spend that finding a better property to wholesale.

They should have to pay you the value of your NECESSARY PRESERVATION IMPROVEMENTS, meaning if you do something like some necessary improvements like spend 1K on painting but it adds 5K of value to the home, they have to pay the 5K.

Doesn't make much sense to spend $15k, if the max rent in your area is only $50 more per month.

We currently don't take the home office deduction because our space at home doesn't meet the requirements, we are spending money OOP on storage, and we just would like to have something that we think we can sell easily in the future without too many issues. 

Once my house in Philadelphia is finished , I wanted to see if I could have any success with short term rentals, (because I would like to spend the winters there as that’s my slow time) if not I would place a full time tenant.

I can make the obvious assumption that many of them have seen the guru ads who make it sound like shooting fish in a barrel and believe it will be an easy way to become an investor without money.As illustrated many times before from a wide range of experienced investors the path to a successful wholesale business requires a good amount of capital to spend on marketing which most newbies do not account for. 

Don't spend the money on an entity until you have something to protect.

That means that you can bring $12k to the table and buy a duplex for 40k, then spend 20k on rehab, and it'll appraise around 75k.

Spending money for 4 months use is a waste of money.Tell them that according to the lease you are not going to replace the washer and you have no intention to repair.