A waiter hands you and menu.

Lookup the taxes for the property you’re interested in on the country website here:https://icare.co.lucas.oh.us/L...After you look up the address click on “current taxes” on the left menu bar

Couple of reasons:1) My interest hinges on the assumption that starting with a blank canvas and creating the perfect consumer product can optimize your revenue per square foot in a way that offsets high building costs.

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some of the nicer resturants in PDX removed tipping and raised prices with the disclaimer on their menu that they were paying staff higher wages. 

Take a clue from the US goverment.Another way to optimize is liquidate properties that don't have the best long term prospectives and trade into better quality assets.

Not ideal (to put it mildly).So long as you aren't forced to sell, hopefully the area will grow to justify your optimism. 

@Matt Littlepage realtors tend to be less than optimal avenues to find good deals… Although I have found a few here and there, search for ones that are explicitly “investor friendly“, or even here on bigger pockets forums!

Do not expand in any way in my real estate portfolio except to optimize and create better systems2) Do less investing overall.   

@Adam Tafel optimizing performance is a big one!