With your income, you have to ability to start partnering as a silent partner and enjoy the tax benefits as an LP, or if you wish to be more hands on, there are people willing to find good deals if you have the money put up. 

The online version gives you the ability to invite your accountant so they can look at your books whenever you need them to.  

Which do you feel is a lesser of two evils-Having a local postmark and completing it in-house or having an out of state company do it and having the ability to scale up?

If I am a cash offer...we might only beat the 2nd best by $1,000, maybe up to $2500.Now I will also assign values to longer or shorter closing times, ability to perform inspections or waive inspection etc.  

You will need to "feel them out" on the fly which takes an ability to read people and what is behind their emotions, body oanguage, etc.If you experience any difficulty from your first approach, get your attorney nvolved immediately.

People are willing to partner with me even though I don't have much cash because I have the ability to navigate them through the process better than they ever would be able to.

So I've been flipping for a couple years, but I'm tight on my debt to income ratio and don't want to ruin my ability to flip.

Further, I feel this law is very unfortunate and really a lose-lose for everyone, because the loss of (especially small scale) property managers' ability to use discretion in accepting applications will absolutely result in application criteria being raised across the board!

Apparently that's taboo, and I risk paying tax on anything I pocket.I've heard of refinancing shortly after purchasing, but I don't know exactly how that's supposed to work, and it likely incurs more cost to our big-picture plan (possibly jeopardizing our ability to put 25% down on both properties.Any advice/recommendations would be most helpful!

The ability for the largest land owners to absorb costs does not prove other landlords are price-gauging jerks.