@Paul JellicoeDwello is fairly new and we have not used them.  

We accepted a tenant for the 3rd floor apartment late yesterday afternoon and collected the deposit last night. 

@Charles WangCalifornia will look at anyway to collect their $800 fee.Your scenario would require you to pay the $800 fee.

Not just for taxes, but for basic fairness.

The folks on the board do this every day, so they will not be fooled... but they are fair, and if the fair market value is truly less than the stated tax value, then you will win.

Buying in a state where seller pays is fairly normal but as an agent when I buy I still get a cut of that back as a commission.

Hands down communication and fairness.

Here is the text of the article in case you can't see it:By Ben van der Meer – Staff Writer, Sacramento Business JournalFeb 22, 2018, 4:43pm PSTIn a sign that escalating rents in the city of Sacramento may have reached a tipping point, a group has filed with the city clerk’s office to collect signatures for a rent control measure.The ballot measure would allow rents within the city to rise by no more than the percentage increase of Consumer Price Index, with a baseline set at the earlier of Feb. 20 or whenever a tenant first occupies a unit.A notice of intent to circulate petitions to put the measure on the ballot was filed Tuesday.Landlords would be able to evict tenants only under certain circumstances, such as failure to pay rent or violating lease terms.

The assumption package provided by the current mortgage holder is fairly straight forward except that it states we need a "sales (assumption) contract between seller and buyer."  

With two 50/50 cash partners, how do the rest of the responsibilities fairly get split?