It is typically much easier for you to buy "turnkey", however in my experince you will buy better quality from an owner who occupied the property than a hous that has been professionally flipped and the remodelling has been done skin deep.Cash and quick closing is not always an advantage.

I recently finished a Boundary Line Adjustment, but after all the difficulties/issues/delays with our survey/engineer we are looking for recommendations from anyone who has had a good experience with someone local. 

However, I would really like it if a lender could use my brokerage account as my “skin-in-the-game”, vs putting 10-30% down on the deal in cash.

I was thinking notes, but finding good notes in an area I'd be willing to foreclose in is difficult, I only know of PPR notes and FCI Exchange. 50k doesn't seem like enough to get into lending and I'm not an Accredited investor. 

If you go in with that attitude of "I can forget 90% of this" you might have more difficulty with the test despite the fact that it is true.

Then you will have some skin in the game to purchase your next rental property etc!!

I know there's a million ways to skin a cat and it comes down to personal preference, but my CPA seems so adamant about not paying my house off that it has me second guessing doing so.

Successful loan assumptions are rare, you aren't the only one that's coming up against this difficulty.

@Jarrod Roecker  So sorry to hear you ran into difficulties. 

I see no indication that anything has change in our market but 1) that is today, maybe tomorrow there will be something 2) most of the things that cause depreciation cycles are seen by very few investors 3) Even if I miss nothing and the market stays highly desirable, any estimate ROE based significantly on appreciation (rent and property) is hardly more than an educated guess.My point is calculating expected ROE that has a significant dependence on appreciation is very difficult.  I