They are about as accurate as people's predictions of individual stock performance.

You gotta take some risk to get some reward.

I can't speak to how long getting the building approved by CHA takes, as mine was already approved when I had purchased it, but the individual unit inspection typically takes less than an hour.

Individually we can do nothing but continue to try to out bin eachother on each offer.

If they are friends, roommates, dating, or whatever, then I have minimum qualification standards that each individual must meet.

It's important to not let rent fall too far under market rent (for resale, for cash flow, etc), but it is worthwhile to reward goodstanding tenants with a lighter increase than you would use for a new tenant. 

Each room has individual controls .

Most people would list and sell them individually because an owner occupant will often pay more than an investor. 

It helps: of course the investor due to returns, the realtor/wholesalers get their work rewarded, the contractors get money for honest work, the property managers get to do their jobs and get rewarded for their hard work. 

Yes, I had always heard that it could be hard to finance a property outright with an LLC, so I'd always assumed it would have to be done in an individual's name first and then transferred to an LLC afterwards.