If spreadsheets, perhaps different tabs or another method.  

Currently I am working as an engineer in Northern Utah and would look to get into house flipping and using the brrrr method for rental properties here in Utah or southern Idaho.

Looking for a structural engineer for a property in Apopka.

One of my west Philly properties (row house) was cited for a city violation in February that said the structure was "unsafe".  

Plus, there have been several court cases concerning corporate protections in California where the Court has decided to "pierce the corporate veil" concerning California LLC's - which means that setting up an asset protection structure based in California is almost like not having anything in place at all. 

They will have to dig down around the entirety of the structure to redo the drainage pipes and apply the sealant-it is not cheap! 

No ghettos, no luxury, no structural issues

I would say that it is very important to know the entity structure that you plan to use from a tax & liability stand point before jumping into buying property.

I can only pull from my last 6 month of looking through commercial listings so if that is the industry standard method, I'm not the person to try and change it.

The downside is restrictive guidelines, a ton of paperwork, lack of flexibility.Commercial types of financing have pros that are flexibility in guidelines and structure you can do all sorts of stuff from substitution of collateral to partial lien releases on blanket commercial mortgages to cross collateralization and many others, less documentation than conventional financing products, use of debt coverage ratio (DCR) as opposed to Debt to income (DTI) and if you compare DCR to DTI the commercial lenders go up to 80% DTI since the reverse of 1.25x DCR is .80 or 80%.There are downsides to commercial financing and that is the convenants with in the mortgage note that can allow the lender to call the note so make sure to read all the definitions for what substantiates a "default," by the lender you'll be surprised by the definitions and language at times.