We are working on getting high quality photos, but it's challenging since we are currently living in the home with our 3 children and dog.

If it's a larger organization, feel free to inquire about their different staff qualifications.2.

You'll have to have a larger downpayment: 25%, usually a higher interest rate, and often but not always a shorter lending period: 20yrs is frequent. 

My properties have appreciated significantly over the last year and the city has reassessed these at significantly higher values which means a new larger tax bill.

In fact, the typical AC is 12,000 BTUs or one ton larger than it should be for the space in which it is installed.

I'm hoping you can help me figure out how to qualify for a larger conventional mortgage, right now I can only qualify for about $450K with 5% down, which is my goal. 

If you want to work for an institutional investor or have any desire to play in the middle market or above [which the best way to do the latter is to have worked at for an institutional shop] then a degree is a requirement and if you want to work at the shops that do the most interesting deals [family offices, pension funds, REITS ect] you will have had to work at some of the larger firms to cut your teeth and they do care where you went to school.

You've not really walked a value-add property until you've been in one where bedroom #1 was where the dogs crapped and bedroom #2 was where the humans crapped.

I started to find a few solar companies installing solar on larger multifamily then billing each tenant for electric directly.

For larger jobs like this it's always best to get several quotes so you know what the market rate for the job is.