This model simply wouldn’t work for me.

I'm trying to make a decision between the two and I wonder if it simply depends on which rep employee you are assigned to in each business, and their experience. 

Whether it's a legal demand for compliance or simply an email, it doesn't really matter; just make sure everything is in writing. 

Being able to enter a property with only 5% down means you can leverage your money way more effectively as well.

If they try to hide who their current landlord is or lie about it, you can simply deny them based on that.

Instead of having to enter personal info and upload an image of your driver's license for each Reporting Company, the Individual FinCEN ID allows you to input your personal data once and then link the Individual ID to your various Reporting Companies. 

It simply depends on your time frame, when you want to actually begin renting the property out short term, and what the loan terms are.

Will they be doing other types of work like getting through the financing, becoming the guarantor, finding the deals, crunching the numbers, doing the accounting, or are they just simply doing less work?

If the airport authority would deed the buildings to me, it would cause them to be entered on the tax roll.

We would do a safety check and enter the property.