I feel like there are more options coming up everyday and tourism may be slowing a bit, but i have no data to back up those feelings. 

@Shawn D AugustiBy start up costs if you mean repairs or improvements done to the property before it's placed into service, those expenses are added to your cost basis and depreciated.

Way more that what you might spend on a monthly basis.

Different people but it's also a group that provides valuable connections and knowledge.There are more groups out there but these are the two I visit on a regular basis and both have helped me on my real estate journey.

Contracts (not just sales contracts) are breached every day.

It’s also the basis of knowing a good deal.

I would sit in on the mentor protege calls on a weekly basis.

No one has more "skin in the game" than a PMC as they have to deal with the property every day until an owner sells or fires them.Also recommend finding your own Inspector and not one referred by an agent.

If so they can get a ground up financing and use that cash on the down payment, as ground up financing can finance some of purchase and most of construction costs (on a withdrawal basis)

You will be able to convert your current debt to a 30 year perm debt loan and cashflow on a long-term basis.