While the property is in a smaller town, it’s relatively close to a larger city, which I think adds a lot of potential for attracting both short-term guests and long-term tenants.The motel has fewer than 16 rooms, and the nightly rates are extremely competitive for the area.

Sell your lumber right before the next Rainy season, when supply of lumber is Short, "hopefully", or you will need to sell at a lower price or carry for a year.What does this have to do with Real estate? 

You're spending over $600k (purchase price + rehab + fees) to make $25k, and then you'll have short term capital gains on that...

Interest rate 3.8% In short this is how you do it...Find a flip opportunity, use hard money or what you got to buy, rehab it, re-finance it, boom.  

With the upswing in the country's short-term and mid-term rental markets, a unique opportunity is presenting itself to house hackers during a time when it's harder to cash flow than it was a few years ago.

I took a quick look, @Torianne Baley:1) With short-term treasuries now paying around 4.5%, guaranteed by the USG, why would anyone loan to you at 5%?

Yep both enjoying the investment both short term and as a Longterm investment.  

Land leases often complicate financing, limiting your buyer pool, especially if lease terms are unfavorable or the remaining lease duration is short.

They are bought either with SHORT term high interest (hard money) type loans or purchased in cash.

Look, I am rather regimented when it comes to hard money; that a HML should ONLY ever be used for short term transactional purposes.