I'm not a tax professional, but either a) a whole lot of my clients are engaged in tax fraud or b) your CPA is wrong or miscommunicating. 

Use some of the available tools out there to run high level analysis and then once you have a short list you can start engaging property managers, do more manual research on the existing booking platforms and/or pay for more expensive data to fine tune your analysis.Best of luck!

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If building a syndication business is what you want, it might make sense to engage a syndication attorney to find out exactly what you can and can't do with your list.

As such, it is viewed as engaging in a trade or business. 

Thank you much in advance and I look forward to engaging in these forums and other tools much more as time goes on!

Use online forums to engage with people.

I had two people recommend Mia Madison and I'm the process of engaging them to handle my new investment property in Savannah.

I am looking forward to engaging in conversations here.

I do plan on using a CPA to file my taxes (first time.... always have done my own in the past but 2018 was first year owning rental properties), but I like to have my ducks in a row, so to speak, by being well organized BEFORE engaging the CPA.'