Most "local" QIs you'll work with are actually reps for large national companies. 

I was contacted by a Zillow sales rep about becoming a premier agent.

It would be more ideal if you had or can find an investor friendly agent there to rep you as the buyer to ask all the questions or know what questions to ask for you to figure out more about all four units. 

@Ian Ippolito what’s even more concerning to me is that the fed would have probably cut more than a half point but with it being so close to the election wanted to preserve its impartiality.  

If you want to attempt to rep yourself, you have to play the game too.

W-2, 1099, etc.) with passive income/loss from rentals is to meet the IRS requirements for Real Estate Professional Status or REPS (this also requires material participation in addition to specific requirements to be considered a REPS).Once you have clarity on whether or not you can offset non-passive income with rental losses you can then explore cost seg to accelerate depreciation (and some of the accelerated depreciation from cost seg will impact year 1)...

This question has come up a few times with prospective clients recently, so I thought I'd shed some light on it.Generally, being an employee in a real estate business does not automatically qualify you for REPS unless you own at least 5% of the employer.

Only “off” thing that happened was an email to our insurance rep asking to be placed as the first and only mortgagee - which I caught and they quickly apologized for and corrected.

There has been a lot of turnover in the featured agent program and I agree, the lack of responsiveness to us (the paying customers) and inability to reach an account rep directly, could use some serious improvement. 

I had a call with the sales rep from the company yesterday (Jan 2024).