The question behind the question is that I'm trying to figure out how to communicate with property owners that have under-utilized assets.

HOWEVER..I'm getting a fair number of deals with significant cashflow and equity that make these amazing buy-and-hold opportunities at 2 and 3% interest.

It's not a fair partnership if you the tap the equity of their property to use together if you aren't brining any capital to the table.

Come tax time it becomes fairly easy to run separate reports for each entity or each property for schedule E.

I believe I hear what you are saying though, for sure -- that it's better, more fair, and more likely to get deals, if you yourself can show up to the table offering something.... in hard cashbut you still have to know how "fix and flip" works, how to renovate something, how to negotiate.... what contracts to do, how long things take.... etcthat was the concept I liked about Gator, is that it's a team that passes that niche off to the other person, who is good at that - and they can all structure deals together.... you have the deal guy.... the money guy.... the fix and flipper guy, etc. -- and they find deals that could be good for all of them - and everyone is helping each otherI think BiggerPockets will be a potentially pretty reliable place - I know that there's different roles, "finders", "buyers", "sellers".... maybe I can just find deals, and connect people together, and get some kind of small finder's fee for it, or something.... ok so that first 10-20k is important to just be able to provide - when getting into this....

I kind of gave up on Stessa, just do not have the time to deal with ongoing computer issues and constantly not being able to communicate with a company.

I would ask to be connected with a fairly new real estate agent.

In MA, you can usually get insured with Fair Plan with certain pets, but it is VERY expensive.  

@John MaustellerTo be fair, the Colorado ski towns haven't literally banned STRs, but they have installed low caps on the number of permits and are getting to those caps only through attrition.

Cities don't play fair when they decide to go after you.One thing I would also suggest you do is look on AirBnB for the specific building you want to buy in.