What is your ROI and the amount paid for a cost seg study?

Contractors, unless you have a working relationship with them, normally do not want you bouncing ideas off them.Understand what their hourly rate is, have a discussion with them that you are okay with paying them an hourly rate if they walk the property with you and provide you a scope of work along with an explanation of what you can/can't get away with in regards to improvements.ask them if you go with them, if they can credit you the amount that you paid.Once you develop a working relationship with a few contractors, you can bounce ideas off them and expect quality responses.I do not invest in New York.Best of luck. 

You could create an operating agreement granting one of you the powers - but it is a fair amount of energy/time/activity for someone to manage and find deals.

This will likely result in you be asked to pay 6 Months of regular interest on the loan, should you decide to refinance or sale before a certain amount of time.

So if you are anticipating higher rents and therefore higher income next year you may want to wait till then if you are trying to maximize the amount of the cash out refi.

He uses poorly thought through methods, I've listened to his "methods",  Thus, he has the high amount of  Due On Sale called in a short period of time. 

I have to sell it, but guess who has to request the payoff amount from the lender….thats right, the ORIGINAL borrower.

That's a very low amount given it's a commercial property.

It seems to me that they all whether paid of free, will all have the same exact amount of houses because all the transactions are all public and so they seem to compete with each other based on the quality of the data of the houses, how up to date it is, and the user experience in configuring the how the layout is.

Most likely a "discount listing" Owner pays realtor a small amount upfront to add it to the MLS.