Is the cost segregation exercise worthwhile given the purchase price ($2M)?

It's important to look at the rent role and history (if available) to see if your tenants are paying on time. and review their current lease. 

Your stated intention of renting it can play a role in this determination.

In my role as Senior Loan Analyst, Joseph is eager to cultivate strong business relationships with investors.

As a mental exercise, can you imagine the perspective of an investor that bought a property from you just 8 months prior to that email, had his FIRST TENANT miss payments, lie about making payments, make partial payments, then ultimately skip out on four months rent?

I have an option to purchase a plot of land in Los Angeles at an attractive price but I do not have the funds to exercise it.

This seems like a fairly easy exercise in comparison to a large multi-unit property with land and lots of improvements.

Maybe you're role could be an underwriter.

Cross reference with employers with higher education off linkedin (use an API), and see if there's a correlation between housing prices in districts which are being gentrified, school ratings over that time period, and housing prices (in fact maybe there's another correlation between if these employers work for recently IPO'd companies and are exercising fresh options to purchase real estate).

Analyze markets, analyze trends, and exercise a strong sense of financial acumen.