When you're getting started it's the people you choose to surround yourself with that can make or break you at the early stages of your career (or career rebrand as in your case).Good luck!

I am in the early stages so I don’t have anything set up yet.

Please be sure to engage qualified professionals to help you during the planning stage as well as during the actual construction phases.

In fact, most of what I hear is that tax benefits should just be viewed as extra benefits, not the determining factor in a deal analysis.

Invite a property manager in the area for their analysis of the address.

The penalty for not promptly responding, just for a couple of extra hundred dollars in proceeding to the next stage of default, far outweighs any small monetary gain.

The analysis is actually the easy part.

Does anyone have a checklist they can share on number of reports/permits I would need to get at different stages of construction?

To put it on the MLS nothing says it has to have pretty pictures or be staged. 

They are often generated by agents doing CMAs, comparative market analysis, which is a method to compare properties to guestimate what the fair market value is.Fair market value is the value at which someone will buy the property within a reasonable time.