I’d appreciate any advice or recommendations to improve this plan!

I have improved units driving rents by 30-40%.

And with that, get's to reno places, improve, and than reset rents higher.

We financed this deal using our typical approach—leveraging Partner Driven's resources and capital, allowing our partner, Rodney Lomax, to focus on property improvements without the stress of upfront financing.

But yes most other areas of construction have seen improvements, but you can't beat old wood. 

Reduce Taxes through depreciation (If you don't meet the IRS definition of a real estate professional, it won't improve any W-2 income taxes)2.

He quoted a 20% fee for managing each successful booking and suggested we improve the staging of the house, which he would oversee for an additional 10% of the total staging costs.

So, you are not improving the effectiveness of the system.

I can’t find anyone who will do a second on the rental anyway, I have found a HELOC — I was debating at least shifting the construction loan over to the rental, but at 5% that still seems like a wash.I’m open to doing another rental property, I just don’t know if I’m stuck because of how low the rental mortgage rate is, and with how much it cash flows — I may not be able to improve much on that situation.My wife and I both work full time, and I have a part time second job to make it all work.  

I know it has had a rough decade or so but I believe things have been improving over the last few years.