You need to generate REAL business and meaningful contacts.

Me: an investor with a small portfolio of performing SFH properties that I purchased using a portfolio loanYou: a potential portfolio lender who can help me do a cash-out refinance to extract equityWhat type of presentation/documentation/summary would you like to see when I come to you asking to refinance?

They make buyers go through rounds of bidding over 2 months to try to extract the highest price or play the buyer against themselves even if they want to accept that buyers offer.Frankly I run across quality commercial brokers and then I run across scummy ones who will do anything to close a deal and give the profession a bad name.

I use to run into this all the time in SC for extracting timber from rural timber tracts.No legal advise given.

Ideally I'd dorm two students per room and extract $1,000+ per student in rent.My biggest open questions are:What are the logistics involved in getting something like this set up?

This increased commission encourages the agent to work hard for a higher price and allows them to meaningfully share in the benefits. 

Also,  that the cost and time to extract the value is huge.  

My realtor asks them all the time where things are at and gets no meaningful responses or no response at all.  

As I said above, and as you can find discussed in detail on this site, the vast majority of LLCs don't provide any meaningful protection.  

It's being said in meaningful places that it can.