The purpose of a trust is to shield assets and minimize estate taxes.

However, you can take photographs of the carpet before tearing it out, and then take more photographs of the back side because that will show all the stains from urine.You can use a "life expectancy" chart, but those are very conservative and unrealistic for our purposes.

So these again I am guessing from reading the company website for about 60 seconds are non owner occ commercial purpose loans and as U know the rules for servicing these are quite a bit different than buying owner occ defaulted or even performing loans that were originated through a mortgage broker / bank. 

Cash flow might be more challenging but wealth was never really made through cash flow anyways, I’d argue that the only purpose of cashflow is the servicing of debt.

It's unlikely anyone here knows that area better than you do and whether the 30 day rentals would still be lucrative in that market, but if it were me I would sell if you're looking at it primarily for investment purposes.

If we kept the duplex, would the $5k in rent be enough to offset the $2,300/month mortgage, for DTI purposes?

Do you get less rent than a purposely built rental building when renting out your condo? 

Do it, if it suits your purposes.

They normally aren't 'tax deduction' unless you actually paid for them.Some items on your return are eligible to be 'added-back' for DTI purposes such as Depreciation and one-time repairs/replacements.Best of luck

It looks that their main purpose is to sell condos and they're using the educational part merely to that end but maybe that's not the case;2.