How you leverage the purchase will effect your expected returns and for some time.If you can't or don't need to flip for a MAI appraisal, ask appraisers for a letter of opinion of the market, they may be very close and at a fraction of the cost. 

Is this the most effect lead generation for flips or wholesale?

That said, while it is certainly true the conditioning served FB in terms of selling their product, it was also a necessary and effective method to make sure every person took the most out of the weekend as possible.

The mother was complacent and was not effectively addressing the issue with her children.

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That special advisor role must be called out in the operating agreement, and some custodians will have something like an "engagement letter" that the advisor has to sign, acknowledging he/she is familiar with IRS law pertaining to prohibited transactions, and agrees to review each LLC transaction for compliance.

The rules that you cited seem to corroborate my thoughts: "(A) A non-lawyer shall not furnish to another for compensation, direct or indirect, advice or service under circumstances which require his use of legal knowledge or skill in the application of any law, federal, state or local, dealing with taxes, except:(2) A certified public accountant or a person duly enrolled may practice before the Internal Revenue Service, as those terms are defined by the then applicable federal regulations and the extent permitted therein.(4) A non-lawyer may render such advice or service incident to an engagement to provide products or services which he is otherwise authorized to provide, where such advice or service arises out of the providing of such other products or services and was not the principal purpose of the engagement."

Why not just have the lease effective from the 3rd?

Good question as to population.Demographics effects value and marketing time. 

Jokes would be a great way to break the ice but I'm more worried about what they don't say/think and how that'll effect their selling decision.