When I was starting out as a carpenter I took a night class at a local CC's vocational education program in Residential Wiring to make myself more valuable to my employer.

To see if there are non ad valorem taxes you could check around on a few residential single family properties in the same community (regardless of value) that have been completed for over two years and see if they have non ad valorem taxes on their tax bill.  

Good to hear your company manages because I am a Residential Realtor in California looking to learn more about the commercial side and invest myself eventually.

I know they will get you at or close to 80% LTV if you are using standard residential financing.

I have spoken to all walks of life from residential investors to commercial office space investors and real estate developers.

The feedback I'm hearing is the 2nd bedroom is too small (it is admittedly small and we took this into consideration by dropping asking rent), as well as there is a quiet local bar next door that turns people off (bar in middle of residential neighborhood).We have had a lot of interest, however the rental pool has not been the best.

Only way a residential vanilla Fannie type loan officer would know anything about this, is if they encountered it on the job before.

I personally think becoming a successful wholesaler is the most difficult job to have, you have to be good at everything.Buying commercial or residential properties is investing.

Initially I was all over the place and looking single family properties that needed light rehab, properties with mother in-law units, multi family, pretty much everything residential. 

(a) (1) Subject to subdivision (b), an owner of residential real property shall not, over the course of any 12-month period, increase the gross rental rate for a dwelling or a unit more than 5 percent plus the percentage change in the cost of living, or 10 percent, whichever is lower, of the lowest gross rental rate charged for that dwelling or unit at any time during the 12 months prior to the effective date of the increase.