We went to the county auditor site and exported a CSV file with all apartment buildings that had at least 4 units in Pleasant Ridge.

Once you have the address then you can search county auditor websites to get the owners contact details.

I have used my local auditors website to find property owners and have had good success tracking them down on facebook and private messaging them. see if that is an option. in larger markets may be hard to find the person but worth a shot 

In your experience what kind of documentation does an auditor want to see to show that specific items of a renovation are under $2,500 and qualify for safe harbor?  

And again, getting 100% of the purchase and rehab, allows me to do rate/term refi's  and the banks (and their auditors) definitely feel more comfortable doing those as opposed to doing cash out refi's which they deem as far more risky.

This came across my news feed on Next Door and I thought I would share it here for folks that do short term/AirBnB type rentals in Denver => http://www.denvergov.org/content/denvergov/en/denver-auditor/newsroom/2017/denver-needs-better-short-term-rental-enforcement.html

Thanks for all the feedback.I went through the county auditor's website with the hopes of finding the purchase prices for each of these homes (they were all bought in 2012-2013), but unfortunately I couldn't find the info.

Those should be spelled out so that everyone has a role and understands that role and to protect you in a audit or lawsuit.

IRS computers tag this as an audit flag, and IRS auditors frown upon it for several good reasons.

Once the refi process is finalized should I expect there to be parity between the improved value figure that the lender assigns and the improved value figure that my county auditor assigns?