Unfortunately almost every franchise involves renting the occupied space when the property would have made more money than the business.

Just my personal opinion - get a mentor or a person who already has good experience running STR business, preferably in your area (but not 100% required). 

How does acquiring compare to renting a small office or sharing office space with another business in that market?

Does anyone know about Tupelo for Business?

Quote from @Gamal Harding: Anduril Industries' Expansion to Columbus: A Transformative Move for Real Estate InvestorsAnduril Industries, a prominent defense technology company based in Costa Mesa, California, has announced plans to establish a new manufacturing facility in Pickaway County, near Rickenbacker International Airport.

This is the first home working with my new business partner, Kelley.

Getting a bit overwhelmed with all the required County Level and City Level business licenses, STR permits and Tax accounts (Business Tax, Franchise & Excise Tax, Sales & Use Tax) to register with the state.

We also have interest from some new car companies that are looking at the facilities in Windsor for re-purposing to use for EV manufacturing.

Its close enough to central OH that it will eventually get the economic growth we are seeing in cbus, and surrounding counties, and it has a decent employment and economic diversity, ie military, medical, manufacturing, higher ed.  

Don't split the work between multiple contractors if possible, finding one to do all or most of the work will keep prices down.Challenges were finding replacement pieces for certain items as manufactured homes were very different than stick built as well as going through state guidelines for affixing the house to the land