The meetups are an excellent place to meet equity partners and private lenders and build relationships with them.

Great tools that get updated regularly.I am on the lending side of things and would be happy to hop on a call with you anytime to discuss financial strategies and help answer any questions you may have about nearly any loan product available to help you on your journey, even if they are not products my capital partners offer.We are all here to help you learn and grow.

At this point I'm trying to figure if I should try to bring in an experienced partner to de-risk this build out or scrap the plan altogether and sell. 

The stodgy that most of the investors that I work with use is to make sure that every 1-2 years they look at their portfolio and capture the equity to help grow their wealth.As a benefit for the investors that I work with we have partnered with a company that we met at BPCON that looks at this exact thing.

BackgroundCar is not for me but mid twenties daughter who I partner with to buy real estate.

However, I received some feedback from one of my partners that the play here would be for an investor to subdivide or re plat the land for a multiple tenant situation.

If you have significant resources you can start on your own, if not partnering with someone who brings some local knowledge can accelerate and stabilize your journey. 

Thus, I might contact some 1031 QIs if you are looking for someone targeting you as a 1031 exchange partner.

Congrats on getting an STR as well, my partner and I specialize in STR and flip investments in the area so we have a lot of local connections that could be useful for you. 

If your partner is a contractor and wants to keep busy, that could be a different story, but I at least consider looking at long term ownership plans and flipping as very different businesses and a lot to learn on both, so not sure I'd risk losing money and time dealing with flips.