I don't know, you're in the gray area (believe me I'm not against paying an honest referral fee).I think the word salad is you need a real estate license if you're arranging the sale of RE in expectation of a fee.DISCLOSURE - AM NOT A LAWYER SO I MAKE MISTAKES AND MAY NOT BE CORRECT!

Russell Gray of the Real Estate Guys always says: “Do the math and the math will tell you what to do!"

Look up Ashley Bettencourt (Revive Realty) and Mark Green/Christie Gray.

In humanoid terms, this means they want to kill enough jobs that people will stop spending, which would increase supply.

For whatever reason it seems to attract people’s attention when looking at listing. oIf the budget allows, paint the exterior a dark gray/black.

My CPA is telling me that because this is a duplex, it might be "aggressive" to file half of the property as a STR and the other half as a LTR and I could be targeted for an audit since this is a gray area of the tax code.

On the other hand, NOI and Cap Rate become extremely important because that determines value and to a large extent, the size of the loan you can get.The only point where this becomes a gray area is if you were to combine multiple contiguous properties and run them as an apartment. 

Appreciate your insight @Spencer Gray

Listen to the investors with gray hair and you'll hear that they were successful because they studied the market and saw a great deal before anyone else did.

I had a house with wood windows painted charcoal gray and the sun was not kind to those windows.