If so, are they regularly making changes and optimizing within the tool?

Everything is talking about the regular "get a mortgage buy a house wait for market to drop wait for rates to go down" which is totally fine and normal (and mostly how I make money as a realtor) but there are way more ways to buy than just that route!!

I don't know about cheaper insurance (yet), but at the event I went to, they said that insurance companies were advised/required to NOT price them higher just because they were concrete homes as opposed to regular construction.I do think it's feasible that eventually they'd have lower premiums as they prove to be more durable/less risky.

Just wondered if anyone had clever ways they regularly converted equity into cashflow without selling the property.

We don't get many natural disasters of this caliber so I'm not sure what to expect for the future.

(a) A person may acquire an option or an interest in a contract to purchase real property and then sell or offer to sell the option or assign or offer to assign the contract without holding a license issued under this chapter if the person:(1)does not use the option or contract to purchase to engage in real estate brokerage; and(2)discloses the nature of the equitable interest to any potential buyer.

In any case there is no taxable event yet.As far as your brother is concerned, it again depends on the nature of the transaction. 

For all practical purposes, 100% bonus is dead, as far as I know.Depreciation, bonus or regular, starts when the property is placed in service, not when purchased and not when cost seg is done.

It’s designed to capture all relevant details, including hours worked, descriptions of tasks, and the specific nature of the involvement.

Most building codes by nature will not approve a home that small, most have minimum square foot requirements.