Though it may cash flow well based on their current debt service, when you compare the income it produces to the equity they have is it actually even a good investment for them from an ROI perspective or would they be better off liquidating and redeploying?

If you are using STR, REPS, or self rental with material participation to convert to active or nonpassive income, you do not have to do this if you have passive business invesment that produce passive income that will exceed the loss generated by depreciation.

To maximize your tax advantages, treat 75% of the property as rental income-producing, allowing you to deduct expenses like mortgage interest, property taxes, and depreciation on that portion.

Perhaps shadow a top producer in your office, After that stability and you have a nest egg.

These policies have been to the detriment of small businesses, the self employed and to large extent  true GDP producers.

You could also go work as a buyers agent on a top producers team and do closings that way.

Most states require them to produce a report with that data to give to the client.So why is having an algorithm look at the rental data illegal, but an individual person look at the data not?

Real estate is basically an income producing and or capital gain producing investment.  

It's more about how to multiply the number of homes producing that cashflow.Bless

On finding an agent, you make a completely valid point about the top producing agents.