I love the idea of offering my time to perform open houses for other agents in my market in order to practice my communication with clients, build my own leads list and just to get my name out and network.  

Some good info for a base of knowledge and conduct your business legally but most not very useful.Focus on systems to serve clients at a high level,  your sales skills, negotiation and ways to get leads. 

I had a friend suggest using PropStream to generate off market leads.

But if higher (likely because cost seg losses are much higher than few years of distributions) then there will be a good portion of losses suspended after offsetting the ordinary income, leading to ltcg being offsetted by the suspended losses upon deal exit.

Lead with revenue.

I just helped a client purchase a property in the Gateway Commercial zoned area and we had some complications that lead to a meeting with the city planning and building department.

But if your neighborhood has lots of garage conversions, then that would lead me to believe you don't need that garage and that it's normal practice to convert the garage.  

My insurance provider also said I can change the policy to cover STR and put it in the name of the LLC.But I'm concerned that the lender will have issue with the house being used as an STR since we secured the loan as a "second home".Did my mortgage broker lead me astray with the manner in which we secured the mortgage?

We looked at reonomy, ProspectNow, and batchleads, but not sure what’s the best for off market leads (phone numbers).

Also, many cities have lead paint inspection programs that can be a big expense when looking at older properties so know what the municipal expectations are going to be for that area.