Zillow is especially good for advertising, creating listings, etc. but there are other platforms that focus more on rent collection or accounting and financial tracking.

If you decide to self-manage, you need to consider (at least):-management software (rent management, communications, maintenance requests and tracking, etc.)

Sounds like you are on the right track.

Your claims do not line up with our track record nor our business practices.

I'm glad to see someone track this with some actual data. 

The groups I can think of have 30 yr track records, which started well before the world of social media and podcasting.  

Yes, sounds like your CPA is on the right track with prorating expenses for rental use and the personal use based on the number of days used for each purpose. 

Allow the bank to do the work rather than you needing to track money intended for different purposes all mixed into one pot.

Yeah, while buying subject to can definitely make sense, selling subject to is something I would never recommend unless there are no other options and even then, only to a reputable company with a long track record and good references.

If you decide to do this make sure to plan ahead and track the income and expenses separately for each unit since LTR tax treatment is different than STR.