So it may make sense to just put it all into one hard money loan.The other thing to consider is if you have to pay a 3% fee to use your card, like with a lot of wholesale suppliers, and your rehab only takes 3 months, you are effectively paying 12% on an annualized basis for that money, which ends up being more expensive than a hard money loan.

The fact that paid information has a higher success rate than free information does not form a basis to say that paid information is better or more effective than free information.

But if you’re not doing it every day, and haven’t done lots of transactions, and aren’t intimately familiar with the local market on a house by house level, then you couldn’t possibly know as much about things to avoid and best practices etc. as someone who does it every day for a living and has done lots of transactions.

Should I run a cost segregation after completion of project and bake it as part of increase in basis?

Larger properties can accept smaller amounts on a per room basis, thus providing more value at scale.5) It's a lot of work. 

Do we use the current basis (acquisition plus reno cost) as the starting point? 

There is a company out there right now paying 40% annualized and I know an investor who thinks its great, well yeah its great until you lose it all - as never in the history of mankind has a company been able to pay its investors 40% per year on a continuing basis.

That is not scientific at all and would be a pain to look at every day to see if there are short term bookings.   

May be worth a meeting and a conversation to sound them out.Edit for a fun story:I worked with this guy who was super stoked on 420, had "legalize it" stickers all over his car, wore Bob Marley shirts, stopped work every day at 4:20 to take a hit, etc.

I might be reading this incorrectly.I'm unsure if your government dealings have a factual basis, but I am glad to hear that, so far, you have been left unscathed.