However, perhaps some of you (real estate agents, investors) in Las Vegas have intimate knowledge about whether it will hurt me a lot (smaller buyer pool) if some of my homes are tenant occupied at the time of sale.Thanks,Einar

Pick out the best ones, print them out, and share those with the appraiser along with some notes about each one and any adjustments that would need to be made (such as a different number of beds, baths, pool, garage, etc).

There are some really nice houses to share with pools etc. near the Center of Tampa where all the offices are.

In order to best serve my investing partners by minimizing risk and increasing the capacity for deals, I am now strongly considering pooling resources and opening up a Private Equity Fund.This is new territory for me and I am wondering if anyone has any experience starting or being involved with a Private Equity Fund?

My guess is the complex will include amenities like pools and gyms.

In short, the property will open itself up to a much boarder buying pool. 

Lot of risk for a first timer.Rather than looking far afield, you may not be able to get as high a cash flow return as the Rust Belt, but Utah has terrific fundamentals (economy, demographics, quality of life), is very landlord friendly, has low property taxes, and a great tenant pool.  

They bought the home together in 2013.The Home: it's a beautiful large home from 2005 with 3 bedrooms and a large living room with a new in built kitchen, completely renovated to a very high standard with a swimming pool, sauna etc. in addition, the home has 2 apartments attached, both of which are rented out.

Russia,Venezuela,Brazil, etc are the majority of the buyers at the high end and I guess the worry with me is potential trump headaches for those guys and if their money goes away in the 3-4 years the building reno would take.From an investment standpoint what do you think a 15-20M total reno of the pool,lobby,grounds would do to a condo trading currently at $750/sq ft in an area where $1200-2000/sq ft is the norm

Another issue is that the pool of properties you are going after is very small.