Being active duty military, if you wanted to remove yourself from the day-to-day operations, a vacation rental management company would probably take 25-30% of your revenue.  

A commercial property can be too many things.In general, the value of any commercial property is determined by the NOI - Net Operating Income.

Research the operator's track record and read the offering documents.Like Evan said, a syndication = pooling of capital, regardless of the asset class or the part of the capital stack the investment is applied to. 

Is there any unique features of it that help with overall operations?

As for "who might be the preferred operators"?

Room rentals will operate with higher expenses so please keep that in mind when you're making the decision.

You should schedule a call with all 4 and learn what they specialize in, the markets and how they operate.  

If you all have a CORE 4 to recommend in these areas please let me kThanks in advance

At its core, we're years (decades probably, if not longer) away from any solve to America's housing crisis, so it's all just a matter of timing your exit, as long as you stay cash flow positive, find good financing, and so on.

Sure as hell beats paying $40k to an actor fronting for a real estate marketing company operating out of Las Vegas or Salt Lake City and providing guidance by a failed salesman reading answers from a script.