If it was easy to take $1k and turn it into $10k easily with minimal work and sacrifice like the guru's say, then we would be the richest country in the world.  

If you do budget that much, the you will easily hit your profit target.There are currently no restrictions in Lewis county and STRs work there, but there is always discussion on them by the city.

For a 3/2/1 of 1200 sq ft, you can easily rent it for 1650 which is what I did last week for a lease break out and had a tenant move in 3 days after the vacancy.

Not much to add to the good advice already written, exceptYour mom could easily get a reverse mortgage to pay for her care, then you and your brothers could split the equity left upon sale.

With enough knowledge you can make a educated decision on which approach you take.My experience:I personally don't sign up for any program who take you aside during events and try to sell packages that is just blatant sales strategy.Once you sign up there is every attempt to make you sign for their programs for bookkeeping, registered agent, LLC or corp setup fee which have ridiculous even with platinum membership.Basic standard structure they suggest to take advantage of multiple deductions can be easily achieved by proper education or work with a good firm like https://wcginc.com  who is local to you.A umbrella C-crop to manage all other LLC properties and take advantage of many tax deductions that are not available with a llc, its also used to take losses up to 100K as startup expenses and dissolve the entity after few years.Few LLC entities for investing in Real Estate, etc preferably in Wyoming or Nevada ( you can find many companies online who can do this for $150 compared to anderson $1500-$3000) , they will claim they have a secret Operating agreement which is bogus.They certainly try to take advantage of tax loopholes and claim to be smart people, my view they are just taking advantage of numbers as per their own statements.

The builder could easily take on the project itself.

Can you travel there easily? 

If they are professional, they can explain this quickly and easily.

If they are professional, they can explain this quickly and easily.

We use Propstream but I am looking for some added info that Propstream does not easily provide  @Sean OToole is the owner and he has built an incredible platform..