Are you exploring a conventional loan or a loan specifically designed for rentals?

They designated certain streets not for STRs and others for STRs.

If you are building on your own existing lot, you are sacrificing privacy for sure, but if you are comfortable with that in this stage of your life its a good way to maximize what you already have than trying to go to market and spending over $1M on a decent duplex. 

There are auctions, city grants, and financing programs designed to help people revitalize neighborhoods.

The interface is solely designed to drag consumers in so that they click to see properties.

The licenses are easy to attain and the cities have departments designated to STR.   

I felt I had a good head start since I was already a real estate agent and was very comfortable with finding comps and figuring out the ARV.

Retirement accounts are designed to be invested passively so when the IRS sees you running an active business in it, to level the playing field between retirement accounts and other business the retirement account incurs UBIT. 

I have a feeling this is designed to maximize retention of now dislocated persons. 

And how much rehab ($ amount or $ of PP) are you comfortable with in your projects?