Might be worth checking airdna and I saw a site which summarizes regulatory "friendliness" to short term rentals (can't remember what it's called now, sorry).

@Jay Hinrichs I'm not a realtor or a lawyer so take my definition for whats it worth but you summarized it well.  

I can quickly summarize the discussion about license or not. 

If someone could explain the spreadsheets in this article and summarize/simplify the analysis, that would be really helpful! 

@Aaron Mazzrillo  check out this article - it basically summarizes several negotiation books and seminars and gives you the general gist of what they all say. 

I want to summarize what i need.

Here's a pretty good article that summarizes the issues - http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/March-2016/Coo...

Email is preferable, and if you have to have a phone call or face to face conversation then immediately follow it up with an email summarizing the conversation and asking the other party to add anything you missed.

Here's an article I read recently that does a nice job summarizing the approach... http://www.creonline.com/how-to-buy-your-first-commercial-property/

You pretty much summarized what I was thinking.