It collects our rent, has tenant facing web portal, tracks all accounting, markets our properties, screens our tenants.  

My understanding is that you can use the loss created by accelerated depreciation on your STR to offset your W2 taxes in excess of $25,000. 

And there's so many variables aside from just the water itself, like politics in multiple states, multiple potential failure points (Lake Mead/Hoover Dam, Lake Powell/Glen Canyon, etc), water rights of multiple competing stakeholders with often conflicting agendas (upper basin vs lower basin, farmers vs commercial non-farm users vs residential users, etc.) then there's the Department of the Interior which has ultimate authority over the Colorado River. 

Unless they have an excessive amount of equity to take out, buying up into a bigger home is quite costly. 

The plaintiff was an apartment property manager and the defendant challenged multiple points, including the late fee that was calculated to be in excess of state law.

Too much of a headache for the Landlord if they leak, break down, excess water consumption, etc. 

Owner authorization/signature, NOTARIZED at the bottom of this page OR a NOTARIZED letter of authorization from the owner giving the applicant permission to apply. which means we (our company) can fill out the app and go through the process without him having to do it which was his main concern.

If you don't really care much and want to be super cheap, the following advice may be too excessive.

Web searched for and spoke with hardmoney lenders in my area. 

From a liability standpoint, you can't have non-authorized people on the job site.