A deeply discounted comp would hurt these buildings' and their ability to refi and could cause a trickle down effect to the rest of the market.

You want to have a discussion whether the property is considered 'active' or 'passive'If it is active, you can potentially accelerate the losses to offset your other forms of income.

Section 8 comes with benefits like reliable government-backed income, potential tax advantages, and lower vacancy rates.

The pool, I can't speak for since in my market of Cincinnati, OH, pools tend to hurt values, but we only get about 2-3 months of use due to climate.Back to bed and bath, while typically more beds and baths can help value, if you are just cutting up the property and making everything too small to be useable and/or you have to walk through one bedroom to get to the other, you could very well be better off not adding it.  

Good area with value add potential and poor previous operations/management.

So basically if I’m understanding you correctly, your saying a way I could potentially use my equity is as the down payment on a BRRRR as long as it’s ARV was large enough to get my HELOC money back after refinancing?

What information about myself and my partnership can I pre-package to arm myself with before approaching a potential lender?

Is there a tool to use to determine what the highest potential disasters are? 

While you should never believe their revenue projection on a specific property without doing further due diligence, I do think their data is a good baseline and can provide an eagle-eye view of areas with better occupancy, better ADR, lower supply and therefore higher revenue potential, etc.Good luck!

Definitely something to consider while vetting out potential GP's.