That is your best bet to ensure it is watered regularly. 

In that case, a premium can help discourage back-to-back bookings or at least bring in more revenue that could help with operational costs....While a premiumcan be put in place so that adjacent days are less attractive to guests, there's no guarantee that guests won't book these days, and your regular listing maximum price will still be in effect (though that can be adjusted with Date Specific Overrides).

The previous owners invested over $12M into building it between 2009-2012 but then left it vacant for years, allowing it to naturally age.

✅ Low operating costs✅ Low crime rate✅ Low risk of a natural disaster✅ Sufficient population to have economic stability, major highways, and a major airport.

It's human nature. 

While it might be possible to find a local banker willing to work with you, but in my experience over the last 8 years it is much better to work with the expert such as @Kreighton Reed who does it on regular basis.

Can you please elaborate why the business activity nature of STR will be treated differently due to part of the property being primary residence and under which rules?

There are no monthly fees (something that might change in the future).This is one of dozens of forums we regularly check in on.

@Hunter Beckstrom Although I prefer multi family due to scalability and economies of scale I still regularly look at and run numbers single families.

Due to it having section 8 tenants it needs to be regularly inspected and it just passed another inspection yesterday.