I used a combination of leveraging my business line of credit, HELOC and partnerships for my first couple deals before adding in private lenders. 

According to [2], private homes cannot be rented for less than a week.

Our best use for the property would be to build a couple of large estate home (8k sq' and up) and form a private estate, but, being that we are in the County with no existing zoning requirements, we could also build what we want and potentially turn it into an income generating property.

We've heard that the leases are for 18 months, but that FEMA retains the right to cancel them with 30 days notice.

First, don't use REI Reply, it's just a white-labelled/private-agency version of GoHighLevel (the actual provider of the CRM) that they just mark up and charge you extra for everything you do (every text, email, etc is 2-10x more expensive than just linking twilio/mailgun to your GHL account, etc).With that out of the way, you can get to making workflows.

Quote from @Lorraine Hadden: @Robin Simon, Thank you - I see you are a private lender, I will be reaching out. 

But you’d have to target the <5% that are privately managed by newbies.

We do some private lending and we do not trust the borrower.

Are you sticking to traditional banks, exploring private lenders, partnerships, or maybe something creative like seller financing?

At the time of the inspection, the inspector did noticed it was a three bedroo0m house.