Please reach out if you have knowledge on actuarial math / risk assessment and excel. 

If they are not fiscally responsible and don't put the proper money aside / look for cost saving measures, you could be hit with a "special assessment" for a large capital project.

I agree with his assessment that house hacking is one of the best ways to get started here.

I am following a few homes in the Asheville area and am wondering how to first bid the property IE: Per tax assessment?

Make sure it's being run properly and be aware of possible special assessments. 

We own several condos and are required to provided full coverage for the entire assessed value of the condo even though our responsibility is with the interior for coverage.

But at the end of the day, an appraisal is just one person’s assessment of the value, and appraisers are human, and can do a bad job.

I'm trying to assess going forward if we will need to account for depreciation or if we continue to use it above the 10% rule is it a moot point. 

Or are there other ways of accurately assessing an area without physically being there?

After reading through their contract documents this service equates to roughly a $16.5K expense over that 6 year period before I'm able to switch over to wildlife and gives an estimated payback period in tax savings of less than 5 years even at current property values given the generic +-90% discount to land value assessed provided by AG exemption.