This shows that even the politically ignorant and largely financially illiterate general public have enough common sense to recognize an obvious scam when they see one.If you vote in a sales tax, don't expect any long term reduction or offset in any other taxes.

Even with big hits to the economy, we could take close to a 50% reduction in revenue for the year and still come out better than if we just switched to LTRs.

In the GR, only 20% reduction in value in San Diego was a good result. 

As for lead certificate would you only consider a lead free cert opposed to full risk reduction? 

At most I would expect a leverage reduction of 5% from max LTV.

So far, I have found a guy who will clean all the hallways, clean the laundry room, and shovel/salt in the winter for a $100 reduction in rent.

Say, if the GC usually charges $50/hour for his or her own time and has a standard 15% mark-up on the invoiced charges for labor and materials a fair exchange may be (1) x number of personal hours devoted to the project at no charge to the partnership per week and (2) reduction in mark-up from 15% to 7.5% in exchange for (3) y percentage of profit.   

(We can do it all again next year so if you didn't appeal your properties this year don't get too down...you just don't get a refund for the tax savings for 2016, it will be for 2017)I appealed 6 of my own properties this time around...a pre-appeal value of 122,700 (22,740 median value) and reduced total value to 50,000 (9,000 median value) so a 59% reduction in value.

We had thought about giving them a 50% rent reduction but the bank isn't going to do anything for me.

If your not RE pro or STR loophole qualified, best to stay focused on the more traditional tax reduction strategies like IRA, HSA and 401k