I met a guy by phone the other day who plans to move here from Florida.

Your description of how a LO works is way off...which is probably why you are confused about a few things. 

Hi, Met a lovely young couple who are interested in renting our luxury condo in Palo Alto.

The only one that was any good was a mom-and-pop where they were managing their own units alongside mine and treating them with the same level of care, unfortunately when they scaled their PM business they sold it to a large "professional" PM (good for them, bad for me) who then proceeded to financially abuse their newly acquired clients and run the business into the ground.So, chances are they both suck, but you have slightly better odds with mom-and-pop if it meets my description above.

HouseCanary is doing something along these lines with their AVM model currently, it will be interesting to see if AirDNA can follow suit...the pictures and amenity meta-data is all there to at least give it a swipe right?!

You willl most likely have to go through the subdivision process in the municipality, which requires survey of subdivision, new legal descriptions and PIN numbers. 

The officials in Snohomish county WA were very helpful, they made sure I wrote down the description of the property exactly as it shows on deed and few other finer details.

Specifically, I'm searching for distressed properties/sellers where we have an opportunity to force appreciation within 4 months, drive positive cash flow within 1 year, and have the ability to recapture principle investment within 36 months.Based on Brandon Turner's description of the 3 things you need to invest in real estate (1. knowledge, 2. money, 3. hustle), I have the 1 and 2.

Thanks for all the information, i was trying to get info on the program and HUD stuff in general and the wording they use on some of the descriptions seem vague an unclear.

NOT my opinion, Attom is the name of the company that collects meta data on the US market for the big companies, that is their conclusion