Plus you won't be frustrated / discouraged waiting to find the perfect BRRRR I think you will like being an owner rather than an employee!

The point is make sure you exhaust your search for answers and don’t get mesmerized because it’s a great deal! 

There is a time and a place for a DIY cost segregation study rather than an engineered cost segregation study. 

There is not much special going on other than an elevator and a roof deck...Please elaborate on the hard money part though, do you mean if the loan is for 12 months, how do I expect to finish and sell the homes within that 12 months?

Yes, I could scale up quicker because of the low costs, but I'd much rather have a smaller portfolio of higher-profit units.If you intend to self-manage the property, I'd immediately cross out everything that is more than an hour drive away.

I didn't do an exhaustive search, so this location is just an example.I'm considering either Reno or Las Vegas, but Las Vegas looks like a better location for this, since it has more direct flights to other international airports, and has more visitors to generate STR income.

They had zero protection, nothing more than an IOU...

A 200lb professional athlete is going to be more fit than an 200lb desk worker that eats fast food every meal. 

There's no doubt that this calculator is cheaper than an actual study, but again you get what you pay for.

. - gfi not working: assuming it is due to gfi failure and not an underlying issue this is less than an hour to swap in new GFI. - no air filter and no place to put one on HVAC: this has me perplexed.