My wife and I chose to write down our own rules for both our marital property and our estate, so that it doesn't go to whatever wacky CO law governs distribution of wealth.

All of these things indicate the basic groundwork for an STR industry supported by local government, and we do expect future support to continueThe highest demand areas of the city can be found South of Veteran's Memorial Pkwy.

She is working for federal government and had deployed out to another state (she is not a service member by SCRA).

The problem is that non-government jobs aren't permanent.

Section 8 comes with guaranteed rent payments straight from the government, which is a huge perk.

However, my take on this is they did not do sufficient due diligence on many fronts, including city government challenges, operating challenges, infrastructure challenges and marketing challenges. 

This way you always should have cashflow coming in and consider renting to section 8 for a government backed rent check. 

@Michael IzbotskyIs it a big deal to update the governing documents to add your wife to title of the LLC to match title of the real estate? 

There are banks that do non-recourse loans to IRA's, a simple google search should render you some results. 2) If you are still working for the government, you likely can't rollover the TSP to an IRA. 3) When borrowing money with the IRA, you do have a special tax, called UBIT, not a deal breaker, but something to be aware of. 

One thing to watch out for is that Atlanta has significant short-term rental restrictions in place, and while Buckhead is trying to secede from the city of Atlanta's governance, it has not been successful in doing so.