I'm a San Antonio native and I am also a Project Manager/General Contractor.

Talk to your neighbors, get them on board for your project as the first step. 

Financing- build a relationship with a regional banker, don’t shop for interest rates, start small and build history and loyalty they are your team, Cross collateralize, deposit CD/MM or custodial account with bank for loan, give them monthly updates, nail your deal analysis, do stress tests on your deal analysis-cost/interest rate/deal length/ sale price etc. 12.

Do you have financing lined up for the full project?

., you lend them money) or are they looking for you to be the "borrower" of the project?

We lucked into a rehab project and successfully run a short term rental in Bell Buckle TN.

PS I owe our success to this project to my Wife.. if we listened to our GC he would have put in what all the other  GC or builders do..

I've researched different platforms and found one that provides comp analysis along with a rehab calculator tool.

The fixed mortgage is what makes these deals not very risky as long as you know basic analysis and buy cashflow positive.

Basically questions that the PM/co-host need to be able to answer without having to do any deep-dive analysis.Property-specific questions such as property improvement advice, revenue potential, etc. that involve deep-dive analysis might justifiably incur an up-front cost depending on the PM/co-hosts business model.