If it is a larger house and the renter group is families consider that moving in the school year is less common.

Most of what they recommend only makes sense from an operational standpoint if you are a larger investor and have a team to help you manage everything.Also, ensure your REI-savvy tax pro and your REI-savvy attorney link up during the entity structure creation process so things are optimal on all sides.Just something to keep in mind as you're beginning this journey.Answering your question, you'll want a checking account (minimum) per subsidiary entity and for your parent entity.

However, you can choose to do a Cost Segregation Study and instead of depreciating the property as a whole you depreciate each piece of the property some of which have a shorter lifespan and that allows you LARGER deductions sooner!

The only thing in our agreement about marking up bills is that they may add a surcharge on larger projects (several thousand dollars) as a coordination fee.

For larger properties, some of our clients run another cost segregation study at the time of sale.2) Partial Dispositions - Taxpayers can carve out and dispose of components removed or demolished from a building.

If not they may require larger lots to separate wells from sewer septic system. 

My assumption has been DSCR is the main driver, coming from my institutional experience (larger deals) we usually target a 1.2 and over DSCR.

As you probably know commercial lending on CRE is not the easiest task right now, then add all the complications to it...foreign buyer, new LLC, new bank accounts, etc and that probably cuts out a lot of lenders who will be interested.Also find out what their goals are to determine if what they want is even feasible. 

Duplexes are worth quite a bit more per sqft than Fourplexes as there is a larger buyer pool and it opens to the non-investor customer.

Maybe the scope of work that he accomplished for you on your property was much larger than the scope of work that was bid for by the other plumber.