@Rosmery ThenMy partner and I are in the same situation, just he has 20 years of construction and development experience.

You have provided a variety of situations where doing a cost segregation study would be useful.  

These are not situations where you will pay a price down the road like not pulling permits for a kitchen/bath remodel.

It sounds like you might be in the situation I'm in: buying a vacation home that I plan to use as a STR when I'm not using it so that other people can help pay my mortgage.

If you are going to be doing the rehab work in exchange for equity then that value needs to be determined up front with a specific timeline that you have to adhere to in order to earn your equity.

Sharing your goals can help others provide more specific advice! 

It is specific to the area.

HI @David SohnSituation 1: You don't pay for your brokers fee:In this situation you are not paying for a buyers agent and they would be paid via the seller.

I believe the code says "if a veteran holds legal title to a property secured by a VA loan but does not possess equitable title, this situation is considered 'not a disposition."

I don't care what anyone says you can lose your *** with any asset class if you do not buy right yourself or invest with the proper syndicator who understands this.You have to be careful with multifamily syndicators now showing past performance like the new property will perform as good or better than the last one in record time etc.Some syndicators craft the offerings in a way that mind screws the investors ( talking in generalities only not specific companies) that hypes them up for the buy in.