I have an idea of creating a hotel booking website.

Foremost, do thoroughly check out the current situation regarding legality/licensing/hotel occupancy taxes for short term rentals in the city/area.

How many of each fast food, hotel, insurance agency, etc are nearby?

Often mistakenly referred to as a type of construction or development, it actually refers to the type of ownership.condominium conversionChanging the ownership of an existing building (usually a rental project) to the condominium form of ownership.condominium hotelA condominium project that has rental or registration desks, short-term occupancy, food and telephone services, and daily cleaning services and that is operated as a commercial hotel even though the units are individually owned.

My wife use to clean rooms at a hotel before we got married and my mother and I were very poor and she was in bad health.

I work 2 weeks on 1 week off and mainly live out of hotels/ camps or couch surf with the family.  

You can do the repairs during the day while they aren't home or put them in a hotel while you do the repairs.

I would prefer raising money thorugh debt, but am now thinking it's probably more realistic that someone is going to want equity in the building (I think I prefer hotels over anything else.)Has anyone ever done something like this?

@Paul CaputoHey Paul, you might be confusing rental income with hotel-like activity such as Airbnb rentals. 

Me, it would cost several hundreds to fly out from LA, plus vacation time, plus car, plus hotel (I can't stay with my daughter, I'm allergic to that mutt of hers).