I obviously will still be paying taxes on the rent as income just like any other property, but will have foregone any capital gains taxes on the earnings of the 529 investments as opposed to if it had been in a taxable account.  

The PM uses Appfolio and when trying to set up the ACH transfer to deposit rents to a bank account in NY, Appfolio (which is based in CA) stated to my PM that they can not do ACH transfers to NY because of 'NY Banking Laws' but they didn't provide to her further information on that.Has this happened to anyone else whose PMs use Appfolio or other similar app to get deposits from Out of State to NY or any other state?

Some counties have this info online, and others require you to go to the physical location of the county assessor's office and request the info.

I qualified for my clock hours for the test from Rockwell which was great because it's online and at your pace.

I am a Junior Accountant in New Jersey, and I became interested because I want to achieve the financial freedom I've always dreamed of for myself and my family.

Sounds like you have a good tax accountant already and are on your way to a good team.  

I would check out yelp.com first and foremost, or do a google search, i would think that accountants who are savvy would be up on SEO. 

When you account for all the expenses and can still make money then that is what a good deal is.One more bit of feedback, Make sure you have some room by buying for less than its worth. 70% of ARV is most common for cash purchases on buy and hold properties,but you can go a little higher when financing is involved.

I just opened my new Business checking account/ with EIN. 

What hurts Investors that use this formula is it does not account for Holding Costs, Backend Selling Costs, etc.