If you hired an agent or a broker to work with you, you'd be covered - but regulations & laws vary from place to place.Screening is best done by establishing a set of guidelines to qualify applicant tenants, then sticking to those rules to avoid legal issues (and for your own sanity).

What should I expect and how should vet/set up a lease through a temporary housing company for a tenant?

You need to set a deadline for them to correct the issue, then follow up with an inspection or other method to confirm compliance.

Commercial lenders are not playing by the same set of rules as conventional lenders.   

.-  Setting up Booking.com was a pain in the butt but unlike others on here have said, I haven't had issues with them.  

You are possibly setting yourself up for immediate failure.....there are too many moving parts and too much money involved to mess up this facet of the project.

The main reason is that it is not initially set up for a Real Estate business like other “real estate-specific” accounting software.

You should only have to do this with the largest items- mainly couches/chairs and dining sets.

If I can get 2 different renters in before Jan 1 2025-is still possible by obviously getting a cost seg.Also, would all of the house hunting, going out to see properties, research (calling city for license/map searching) and buying the furnishings count toward the 1 of 7 qualifications IRS demands in addition to the 2 Airbnb bookings-preparing home, cleaning, set up etc?

And most likely they will set up in Columbus or Toledo as those are uber hot markets.