LOL, Skin in the game, put up your own money, plus pay for coaching calls and your own marketing is not enough skin for some, lolThe fact that I put that fee on the Credit cards and had that monthly payment staring in my face every month, pressured me to come home after work scrutinize my marketing, practice my sales pitch on my wife, read/watch persuasion books/lectures and just be non-stop until I started getting leads.

I think you'll need to just go with the bank assigned appraiser (meet him at the property) and do your best to be persuasive - you can usually dispute the results in the worst case scenario. hand him a hot cup of Starbucks before you begin trying to sell him.

Deductions are a matter of legislative grace and the taxpayer bears the burden of proof, both of production and persuasion.

The first is a great intro, persuasive  book, and outlines why IBC is a good thing.

An LLC or trust (even a disregarded one) can’t assume the mortgage in this case.So, short term, your best shot is either a manual underwrite exception (with strong documentation and a persuasive story), or pursuing the duplex using a different financing route — perhaps non-QM or hard money — and then refinancing into a conventional loan or assumption down the line once the 12-month window clears.

I have read "How to win friends and influence people", "Influence the psychology of persuasion", and "Influencer the power to change anything" also, I know these tactics. 

It speeds up content creation and helps personalize outreach at scale, but pure AI-generated content still lacks the human touch needed for relationship-building and nuanced persuasion.

A key difference between a Chief Counsel Ruling (CCR) and a private letter ruling (PLR) though is that CCRs are authoritative interpretations of CA tax law and can be cited by taxpayers as persuasive authority- PLRs cannot usually be successfully argued as precedent as they are truly intended to be specific in nature and scope. 

And no, it’s not some high-pressure sales tactic or fancy persuasion trick.

The power of persuasion?