.#3....ask what the training costs, if anything.At Keller Williams there are plenty of investor agents...in all types of properties, from single family, to STR, to LTR, to Land, to Commerical, to Multifamily, and more.   

I analyzed 100's of deals in Virginia from commerical to single family homes until I got one that matched what I wanted to do.

Point being some states all Commerical purpose loans are exempt.. other are not.. need to check in each state.

You need to get these in this order:tax account (free)commerical activity license (free)housing license ($55 per year per unit)rental suitability license (free)

If its commerical/Investment you will need pretty much the same thing but you will need to supply the builder info up front and make sure they are approved with the bank/lender. 

Separate book sand records are maintained to reflect income and expenses for each rental RE enterpriseNote: A separate real estate enterprise may constitute multiple properties as long as all commerical or all residential as noted above4. 250 or more hours of rental services are performed for the enterprise (see detail below)5.

There are algorithm based studies that are way less expensive than an engineered cost segregation study (~$600 for res and $1300 for Commerical).

Also, alot of HML will only loan to entities, so the refinance portions is usually done thru a commerical loan which is fine, but brings about a lot of other complications as well.

I would think that we could pretty easily qualify through a commerical lender but what products are best.

WE had commerical lines of credit and cash to pull this off..