In short, by listening to your clients and providing a great service, you will make a profit. 

If the deal goes south and you have next to zero money in the deal, selling a short sale or walking isn't as risky for you since you aren't losing much.

I will DM you shortly. 

Hard money isn’t cheap, so bridging that with a seller carry might help you short-term, from what I’ve heared.

As someone who's spent the past 20 years building software to ingest massive amounts of random data, the short answer is, it's really difficult to get accurate contact data.

Currently my short-term management property is managed by the property management company.

I think one of the older resorts that still do allow short-term (Airbnb rentals) would fit the bill.

The short answer is No, you don't need it.

If anything, at least wait a year so you don't pay short-term capital gains on the sale of the property.I need to find some more deals like that here in Chicago...where in Houston was this property?

Hey friends, I'm an agent in Daytona Beach and I locking in my first short term rental listing.