If I'm in your shoes, I would use this as an opportunity to network with other brokers in the office as well as attend local meetups to get a feel for who the movers and shakers are. 

One of them can either be a second living room or could be a home office, another could be a dining room or could be an office, or used for something else.

A DST is a hands-off, institutional grade real estate investment (apartments, self storage, commercial, medical office, etc), that allows the investor the option to diversify into multiple markets and industries around the country.

This can have a very beneficial impact as personal property typically has a much shorter useful life for depreciation purposes than real property.For example, if you are getting a cost segregation study performed on a commercial office building, there will most likely be assets that have been classified as part of the building but are able to be reclassified to real property and depreciation over a shorter useful life such as 5,7 or 15 years rather than 39 years.

I cannot afford  and will never want to learn to use The Mortgage Office software.Thanks.BTW, that is ridiculous in this day & age a servicer having a poor portal.

But I would definitely get your loan officer to contact the seller's agent to go over the loan process with them.

My office is in HSV but I personally live in Decatur.

I was at his office today for a property settlement. 

definitely. i have got the details from them for their existing landlord. however, that name does not match the owner on the city tax office property records. and they have confirmed that they provided the landlord's details, not the property manager's details.I believe that should match or it is possible to not match?

I'm in MD, office in DC.