One of the articles I read says the law allows you to view their camera feed.

Well, VRBO is getting harder to work with. https://help.vrbo.com/articles/What-if-I-need-to-cancel-a-re..."

I wrote a great article on this somewhere in the forums, but I cant find it at the moment.

I will bring equity and planned to be responsible for 50% of any maintenance expenses.Reading other articles on the forum it seems like a 50/50 split of equity in return for the work listed above may be standard but thats why I am asking the community.Any additional thoughts are greatly appreciated.

Also read this article and watch the embedded video put out by Propelio.

Do you have a resource you can recommend whether it's a YouTube vid, book, or article?

I found this article by BP on calculating ARV, I hope it helps!

I would just go with Florida, you can jump on Sunbiz org and complete the company info, and fill out your articles of inc. 

But this IS a very competitive market....This is a good article on some of these markets with a huge supply:  https://www.adventuresinairbnbs.com/p/help-i-stopped-getting...Here is our Disney home:Last year, we primarily received guests from Airbnb and, this year, from Booking.com.

I suggest reading this BP article on the core 4.https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/core-four-real-estate-team