In our business model we either double close or just work with a local agent for documentary purposes. 

Maybe there are statistical models that predict C% loans getting paid off in full & sooner more frequently than D%, so Wall Street pays a premium for mortgage  backed securities with more of D% in it, which is passed onto the consumer in the form of D% being offered for merely 0.3 more than C%.

Yes, the fact that they recently had to adopt new rules for investors (investors can get no more than 5% of any single property per account, frex) and that even with these rules in place you have to act fast to get in on new properties tells me that they have a pretty popular model.

.-0.35-2.87Realtor.com’s model-based forecast uses data on the housing market and overall economy to estimate values for these variables for the year ahead.

Some hands-on experience in the field you are wanting them to do your accounting always helps them understand your business model better than one who has not venture into the REI space. 

I've worked with a couple financial planners in the past and neither seemed to be capable of doing more thorough analysis than I was given ~20 hours of work in Excel, so I'm looking for someone who can demonstrate to me quantitatively that their analysis is correct given whatever assumptions their modeling takes into account.Background:I currently own 5 properties, 14 units in Minneapolis/St.

Personally, I don't believe in assigning as a business model.

These type of properties, getting an all rented property for cheaper to fix-up later (basically the brrrr strategy) it pays for itself and cash flows are the only properties I am interested in...less work the better but the renovated properties still seem to be out of business model in terms of coming up with the down payment and re-payment strategy of being able to pay it off in 5-7yrs as we don't need the profits to live we just continually pay more principal from the rent. 

The municipal property assessment is based on a mass appraisal model and does not take into consideration a large number of significant factors that can affect the market value, like condition of the property for example.

If you decided to go with the 'I value what's there' you COULD miss out on some value add opportunity.You could run more than one model to give you another perspective on the value of the property.