Leverage technology to reduce your labor costs where appropriate.6.

When you add purchase price, carrying costs for at least 6 months, materials, labor, real estate agents costs and taxes, do you have at least a projected 10% profit?

This is insane that these guys got that large of deposits on a pre sale rental house construction sent directly to them. 

As of right now we are establishing relationships with Brokers, had done some pre marketing for our investors to fund EMD and DD.

Part of this is due to marketing and pre-marketing of the home - an agent is your marketer. 

Hey friends, I'm an agent in Daytona Beach and I locking in my first short term rental listing.

Turning over some kind of commercial property is more labor intensive but it also scales quickly because of potential returns.

My wife briefly help a friend manage their monthly short term rental in San Francisco while they were traveling and have a few friends that do it.Monthly rentals seem to book pretty well, but not at a significant premium to long term term rentals. 

That generally means getting paint from someplace like Sherwin Williams and using one of their long-term colors.

It may work in the long term but can be a painful process.i wish the OP the best and i believe he can benefit by recognizing the value in the various responses but seems unwilling.