Certain organizations such as the AICPA and the State board that issues the CPA license mention what a CPA can / can't do to retain his / her license.Providing a comfort letter is an 'attest service'.Furthermore, CPA firms are encouraged to have insurance, which may mention that the firm can not provide comfort letters.What the mortgage company is looking to do is potentially have another person to go after if the mortgage goes south.It is not worth it to a CPA to get a few hundred dollars but potentially get a lot more in risk exposure.

Consider contacting a local real estate mentor or joining a real estate investing organization for assistance.Good luck!

Does anyone have recommendations for an STR on-call service (not full property management), which will handle basic guest communication during their stay and handle organizing repairs (i.e. calling a plumber, HVAC, etc. ... not actually doing repairs themselves)?

I will only live in one of the units 4 out of the 12 months of the year because the other 8 months I will be with the Angels organization, during that period they provide a place for me to live and also food, so during those 8 months I would have more money I could save up and use in my house hack.

Pay close attention to the capital stack, how much debt there is, how much preferred equity there is, how much the GP is co-investing, how much they project rents to rise organically every year, what exit cap rate they're assuming, how much cash reserves the property/investment will have, how much does the deal returns change when you add 50-200 bps to the cap rate, what is your breakeven occupancy and exit cap rate, and a bunch more. 

I do know an independent landlord in our area that has one duplex and a fair housing organization filed a suit against him two years ago and he has had to defend it.  

There was an article published in the WSJ on January 25th 2001, yes a long time ago, and this was the first paragraph "NEW YORK -- Realtors, already battling Internet companies that have entered the home-selling business, are now organizing to fight a joint proposal of the Federal Reserve and U.S.

I am especially interested in knowing how much capital it takes to get entitlements organized, etc.

This was verified by MBDs personnel (Brian Dozier) ON THE RECORD if you actually read the court documents.4) Dozier also verified on the record that he was the only one in control of operating MBD and responsible for the money.5) When I received money from my investments from them during the good days, it always came direct from MBD and at the time I even signed a doc acknowledging this.Lastly, the OP mentions several larger investors forcing MBD into an involuntary bankruptcy to recover our assets was a good thing yet they don't mention that:1) Sief IS the one who led the efforts against MBD, organized investors and looked out for all our interests.

You've put great details into it and structured it in such an organized way that even a newbie can understand the real estate process from the beginning of the acquisition process to the end of the disposition process.