Rent is softening with people moving away from Seattle due to COVID, ongoing protests, and a crazy city council.I think the real housing crisis in Seattle is that $1,860 is still too expensive for many.Seattle has been making large investments in rent restricted units.

And you have to be committed to protesting your taxes if you are going to buy and hold. 

Buy right and secure a low entry price and protest your appraised value down to your purchase price with the county - in other words start low; then put the homestead exemption into place, and they can only take you up 10% per year (max) - in other words slow the increase. 

Depending on where you live, Democratic leaders will be hiking taxes to help pay for property damage caused by "peaceful protests" during the last six months and there may be more to come, depending on the outcome of this election.I don't know if I would wait until after the election, but I would certainly be careful about location of investments.

We always protest and have always had the property taxes lowered - at least for the first year while rehabbing.  

But they can fail to understand the need for a thoughtful consideration of the research problem to be addressed.When market researchers return with the deliverables that have been requested, often after protracted protest and attempts to explain the inadequacies of such a misconceived plan, they are often discouraged.

There are also local Austin businesses that protest your taxes for you at a fraction of the increased amount. 

Curious if there are ways to protest the setback line or be grandfathered, etc.

If the numbers hold on a downward trend she will probably allow conferences by then however the current protests may kick the infection rate back into an upward trend and blow the rest of the year for even the smallest gatherings.

She explained that this wall would need to be painted and left white, though we would not be able to do it and so the property management company would charge her a substantial fee to repaint it.I should mention that I protested a bit, as the unit was scheduled to be renovated and so all of our cleaning would in the end be for naught.