If i satisfied the mortgage, there would be another 40k lien i would have to satisfy so its not worth to buy it directly from the bank.  

No—LTR PALs can only offset passive income, so an STR’s non-passive losses won’t absorb them.Cost seg studies and bonus depreciation depend on each person’s tax situation; they’re not only useful for REPS.

If you haven’t done so, join AZREIA or smaller local meetups, where you may meet investors (who ought to be repeat buyers).  

Oh Boy, I went browsing today......and I found an old building with reatil space (leased) on first floor and 2 separate attached Studios, and a 1 bedroom apartment. 

But here are some really interesting numbers...Ok so this one doesn't look too bad but notice how much more the townhouses and condos dropped in prices over the last downturn.2007 peak to now isn't so good...Before the 2007 run up to now is better, but even then, apartment condos performed the worse (so best case scenario, you have the worse performing asset type, worse case scenario you had a terrible return), and that's assuming you had nothing go wrong with the condo (special assessment etc)But benchmarks don't even tell the whole story, because if you had a specific condo investment, and you tracked it's value overtime, benchmark prices isn't the right approach as it evolves overtime (benchmark price is the price of a typical property generated at each point in time).

The market is saturated if you don’t have the creativity to look beyond the top dozen or so markets.

Since you asked about underwriting, you could potentially have other revenue such as add on services so I would t rely on solely platform revenue in this case. 

I always go with the higher, so 1 gbps.

From my experience so far this is going to be a long and tough process.

Thank you so much!!