It all comes down to picking the right areas that work well with your personality and attract the type of clientele you feel comfortable working with. 

AND have provided the 150 hrs of material participation and not have had any other person perform longer work hours than you.

When it comes to creative finance, I personally lean more towards seller finance as I like getting to work with owners and building relationships with them.

As for my Airbnb research, I have spoken with a person who runs numerous Airbnb’s in a different area (city atmosphere) who provided good ideas on how to smoothly run the property.

It does later say in the agreement that it is:"binding upon persons who own, lease, sublease, or occupy any parcel or portion thereof"The inclusion of which seems to imply that long term renting and/or subleasing would NOT be commercial use.I'm trying to figure out if I'm taking a significant risk buying this property for use as an STR.

Divorce, always be the bigger person, let them have it all.

Also, don't go off any other person's numbers that is an investor. 

If you still want to get my personal opinion about any of this or other things, feel free to send me a DM and I'll share it in private.

Personally, we saw some great deals, but there were others with different modeling that we have that had us winning very, very few bids.

I personally still quit claim to my LLC after closing.