None of these communities will be changing to residential neighborhoods, although a couple do have residential 'sides' that full time residents live in and can not be rented short term.Two of the big communities that you will have some issues with self managing are Reunion and Margaritaville.

Since this situation was so egregious (IMO), I would either boot them out now, or at least have a serious talk, real serious....If you're going to let them stay I would just get a really deep cleaning done, maybe a couple, and then replace carpet after they're gone.

I have two banks that have done so as well as a credit card, and know of a couple of organizations that have as well.

If you need an LLC for tax reasons later, you can move title into an LLC later for a couple hundred bucks.

Honestly if you are doing STR I would suggest doing Austin itself rather than all the way out there in Kyle - maybe a couple of years ago when the prices were through the roof in Austin city itself this would be a good alternative but there is a blip right now where you can get a god entry point in Austin (downtown/east ideally) for STR

I have done it a couple times myself.

Between now and the time you retire, there will be a couple of severe recessions and likely serious inflation. 

Indisposed the next couple days but will reach out soon!

We have done out of state investing and we hold 3 SFH and one Town home in Atlanta, GA and looking to expand our portfolio.We attend a monthly meetup every 2nd thursday in the month.

In short no change.Cash flow that was supposed to start in 2019, will now start "in a couple of years".