This shows the dates the property was booked in past months, nightly rates, as well as future bookings and/or unavailability.

I forget the name of the company, but there was a guru setup, and my potential "mentor" was not the same person as the guru, who was mostly unavailable. 

Borrowing is not possible in an IRA, so this strategy remains unavailable to IRA investors, even those with checkbook control.

You are using your IRA funds to ultimately gain a personal benefit (as is your friend) - access to cash that is otherwise unavailable sitting in your IRA.Furthermore - you cannot lend the money to your friend from your IRA, and then have him give you the money personally (outside of his IRA).

I have seen many BPers use listsource.com, but unfortunately it seems to be unavailable in my home state (Kansas). 

I guess they can check availability and prices daily and if the place is marked as unavailable before the day expires they can assume it was rented at the last price?  

I don’t see how to message you, when I go to contact you it shows “unavailable”...

She was unavailable all day, so I had to have the tech go there at 8 pm today for a 3 hour job.

One of my partners is an agent and I really want to be able to use his MLS while he's unavailable to pull comps.

Two things, (1) If you get more than a few under contract at once that'd be a fair chunk of capital unavailable for other uses. (2) Perhaps more importantly.