So there are now 20+ people to connect with in order to get a clean marketable title, (none of these existing family members have any idea of the property even existing).

This is probably the most up to date information you can get, you can get the data cleaned, formatted and skiptraced for pretty cheap using some new comers like GoliathData. 

With short term rentals, you tend to take a larger cut as there are many things involved in the day to day upkeep, think 12-25%.

I’ve gotten by with just cleaning the roots out annually at a few of our properties with clay pipes, and just replacing sections of collapsed pipes at others and the highest I’ve paid was $10k for replacing a ~30 foot section of collapsed orangeburg (that stuff is the worst).

It looks clean and bright and I never have to keep track of which color I used.

Typically if there is a co-borrower involved lenders are going to use the lowest credit score to qualify. 

We do not get involved with their disputes.

You own it until you sell it.To make the most money as a wholetail you want to fix unattractive things (at low cost) and clean and spruce up the appearance as a whole.

If the inexperienced investor knew how much work, effort, time, analysis, negotiation, organization, capital, and knowledge it takes to successfully find, identify, evaluate, and close on a property that fits the criteria that gurus falsely claim they see 100’s of every day, 99% of them would abandon their real estate dreams” and pursue ostrich farms, mink breeding, or setting up a “down line” to sell condensed cleaning products that their “upline” has an exclusive distributorship on for the southwestern quadrant of Bisbee, Arizona.  

Here's the bottom line- I know that there are opportunities that do not involve fix and flip that you may be able to bring to an investor who will then decide to invest with you based on the numbers.