Real estate professional status is valuable because it allows us to reclassify these rental activities to active.

Participation in actively managing the property, in addition to other factors, changes whether or not losses from a rental (losses that may include bonus depreciation) can be used to offset non-passive income (W-2, 1099, etc). ...

Additionally, If anyone would be willing to have a conversation about what they look for in CPA's and what they learned financially starting in the rental investing business I would greatly appreciate it! 

Are you in an area where land is very valuable leaving you with less to depreciate? 

Falls into the "wadyagonnadoaboutit" category, but the fact that they are making money on the float off our properties and guests, in addition to high fees, is frustrating to say the least. 

In addition to our own holdings we manage many SFR’s and Multi’s for investor/owners.

Debt if used responsibly is a valuable tool but to say debt will always multiply returns is the wrong message to spread in these forums where there's a ton of readers who are inexperienced investors and will fall for the trap of following your flawed approach to originating debt.If you need additional help understanding how debt works in real estate, please send me a DM and I would be happy to help you out.

Additionally while it's true you cannot take advantage of the depreciation on real property investment when inside a retirement account, that is not the purpose of a retirement account. 

I have rental properties and the property management company direct deposit my rental into my bank account instead of naming the properties by address, she just put the property management company name in the additional income.

If you have a deal that you think is more valuable than you think it's worth and want to sell it on the market, I'd suggest closing on the place.