Just to add my two cents, I think the most important aspect to be a successful investor, in any market, is to have an excellent team in place that will help cut your learning curve significantly, help you to quickly identify the prime areas to invest in that market and manage your properties effectively!  

My taxes are fairly detailed and comprehensive, definitely not cheap.When I wouldn’t get a response back, yet they were responding quickly to posts here in BP, I had to cut my ties.Best to you

If you do not run numbers, you are shooting from the hip and your strategy is either fueled by "hope-ium", or your experience is so immense you know every input and return without running the numbers (but even the most experienced investors run their numbers).Here's the best advice I can give you: You can "run the numbers" until you are purple in the face, and you will never know what every single ACTUAL number is going to be before getting into a deal.

FED cannot avoid cutting rates they dropped in December and January and a CPI index report crushed everything that was really all hedged data.  

With a table saw you can either cut plywood to size and do nice woodwork, or you can lop off your hand.

WONDERING also if you do these kinds of things with Back Taxes- we ( my husbands BIZ and I ) are working on consolidating his business loan (bout 20k) from the pandemic days and then this back tax of 28k from his previous divorce days-  both very high in interest- and before we paid our work van off a consolidation program I reached out to was like - uh we can't help you-  anyways Im sure you can find my contact info via BP- my membership will close here soon as I will be back when we're closer to buying our first home- I am focused on building my business and such- Jesi Naomi on Social media - would love to talk- I love this membership - I just need to cut down on costs I haven't been using while getting our finances in order.   

They're incentivized to make/save as much as possible from the deal so I wouldn't be surprised if they aimed to cut costs in a situation like this. 

If the report is much shorter, the company may have cut corners or you may be lacking proper documentation.What other things do you look for when selecting a cost segregation company?

Eventually I would like to set up some sort of "in-house" property management to cut back on these fees.If you are able to self-manage those rentals, though, then the fee is a non-issue!

Kind of crazy but here is what Chat GPT came up with when I cut and pasted my request ....