The rep said it was because they move so fast....not sure how true that is.

The difference in price between two reps at the same company should already raise red flags for you. 

So is a cost seg for accelerated depreciation only beneficial for REPS or non-W2 investors (eg. self employed or contract worker)?

Most of my folks shave off 10-20% in taxes their first year even without REPS real estate professional status.Taxable Brokerage Account: Not recommended, put into Alts.2.

This will give you real life reps with other investors.

It would seem you don't have any real-life reps to support what you are doing.

However, STR will not count towards REPS.

You need reps looking in real life, not on a spreadsheet.

Their program seems very good overall as far as the essence of them covering coaching and rehab and all costs, but i was quickly turned off by the sales rep named Scott,i spoke to who was extremely arrogant and impatient kept saying i'm geting dozens of calls each day and dont have the time to handle everyone, and needs to know up front do you have a couple thousand set aside for this business, i said i'm investing about that in the business now what do you offer that would warrant that< and he repeated the same and i said, well like i'm on the call now with you 2 min and 14 seconds care to tell me what all this is about and what the financial requirement is???

One of the reasons you want to work with an agent is that the sales reps that sit in the model homes work for the builder, meaning they have allegiance to them.