Nailed it, the great moderation was extremely poor Keynesian economic policy.

I'm no Facebook expert.

The truly tragic natural disasters in California, North Carolina, Florida and others of the past six months are evidence that no location is truly 'climate safe,' however there are geographical areas that can expect less weather extremes and lower costs of living, developing, insuring and seemingly...surviving. 

(taxes would be extreme, especially for the properties held since 2000's.)

My dream is to achieve financial freedom through multifamily rental properties and live life on my own terms.Recently, I have been reading one book after another, trying to absorb as much information as possible, and am extremely thankful to finally find this amazing community.

This is extremely common in Detroit area.  

To build a platform like that, you definitely need technical skills, but it needs to be informed by real estate domain experts as well.

It seemed like most the folks you have on staff are CPA or other, but no specific legal experts.

Fatal mistake to buy that on the forward curve.My recommendation would be to get out of this position; the STR is in an extremely oversaturated market and the underlying asset is a clone of many.

I am not an expert here but my thought is that you would learn a lot by getting your license and have more credibility in the industry at large so if your time and finances allow- get that license:)