nothing pointed at you personally but there has been build to rent projects were investors had to put up 50k non refundable and never got their house built.. so I can see putting it in escrow and releasing it upon closing for sure.. thats what i personally do with my new builds although since we average 25 to 75k of upgrades per house buyers have to stroke non refundable checks directly to us for those items.

Nearly all of the items they brought up were items they chose not to fix on their initial inspection that they are now have an issue with.Still a pending case but a couple lessons I have learned along the way...1.

Without an exact numbers breakdown of each option (which should obviously be my next step), I think my ideal situation would be to sell the SF and roll the equity into this, leaving me with a modest holding cost that I can absorb with my stable W2, and keeping the HELOC for any larger ticket items I need during rehab.

The majority of the  bigger pockets posters cannot articulate the risks or reasons why they believe its necessary to pursue elaborate entity formation structures similar to your your charts and ignore the action items that can truly accelerate your growth.

So i can always go back and listen to specific items.  

Pre-schedule all your maintenance items and setup a re-occurring schedulea. 

You need to do an inspection to itemize his security deposit, and the less crap there the easier to see the true condition. 

It's ok and still good for keeping track of items, but the little annoyances just turn me off.

One item I can add from being a guest at a STR...keep up on your pest control (this includes mice/rat control). 

Will be way cheaper.Have the engineer, put together a cost list by line item.