My wife is an agent and adamantly opposes virtual staging for a few different reasons.1. 

Since this particular CPA specializes in overseas expats as opposed to real estate investors, I will probably move to a new CPA that specializes specifically in real estate for the 2021 tax year.

I actually like the suggestion you gave for the second home, I just don't know how I would swing it since we're targeting it as an add the the investment holding company as opposed to a solo purchase for myself. 

That's what I mean by not wanting a fight.If a neighbor opposes you, they will stop complaining as long as you are a good neighbor (and they aren't crazy). 

If you just told them to pay, they may have been afraid to tell you they couldn't as opposed to asking questions where they know you want honest responses.

Depending on how far along this loan is in the amortization, there could be additional benefit in keeping the original mortgage in place because more of the PI payment is going to principle, opposed to if you were to take a new loan, where a majority of the PI payment will be going towards interest.As far as the negotiation goes, my method is to simply do run a few scenarios, making sure to add in whatever ROR or whatever metric you want to have as your investment criteria.

I love that real estate investors are talking about kindness and providing high quality housing (as opposed to just the bottom line). 

MF hedges against market shifts and cap ex. also doors are a multiplier X so if i have 100 units under 1 roof and 1 of my tenants moves out and trashes the place well thats only 1% of my expense.. as opposed to 1 SFR which would be 100% of my expense.. the only aspect I could potentially agree with is the liquidity.. but lets start off with IF you are investing in holding real estate then you SHOULD be holding LONG TERM. so liquidity is only a tertiary calculation.

If my partner wasn’t so risk adverse and opposed to moving I would buy a new property and house hack it every 14 months or so when the seasoning period on the previous 3.5% down payment loan was up.

@John Vela-Garcia Hey John, often times you will find that it is cheaper/faster to do a renovation on an existing home as opposed to building a new one.