You will pay interest twice for the same dollar.

Typically, at least in my area, dollar for dollar MF do better than single. 

Hello – can someone please help me make sense out of how my property market value can decrease by a couple of hundred thousand dollars in less than one year?

That would several thousand dollars.

At times, I wish I hadn't even touched certain things as it cost me more to hire out a contractor to fix my mistakes, and other times I have saved myself a few hundred dollars on maintenance costs.

That makes managing things easier.Con: You aren't getting dollar for dollar value back and if you use that money to buy another property, now you have two appreciating properties.

Check out dollar store for something like that.

I read that some were buying the rights of people who are owed money from Lehman Brothers at 100% on the dollar because they think more is actually going to be returned with the UKs required interest, if there is money left over after they pay all their debts.

That is, unless investors are now willing to pay more than the 1% rule used to dictate.I know it will cost some time and money to get them vacant and fixed up, but the alternative seems to be to leave 10s of thousands of dollars on the table.

Certain organizations such as the AICPA and the State board that issues the CPA license mention what a CPA can / can't do to retain his / her license.Providing a comfort letter is an 'attest service'.Furthermore, CPA firms are encouraged to have insurance, which may mention that the firm can not provide comfort letters.What the mortgage company is looking to do is potentially have another person to go after if the mortgage goes south.It is not worth it to a CPA to get a few hundred dollars but potentially get a lot more in risk exposure.