This will lower interest costs and free up future cash flow for reinvestment or reserves.Tax Planning: Work with a CPA to mitigate tax impacts from principal-heavy payments and potential gains.

They do all of the heavy lifting.

You have the right things to analyze here, but STR might be a tall order to do arbitrage unless you have the funds to go heavy on the furnishings.

I would just recommend choosing a property that doesn't need heavy rehab.

Look for brands like LifeProof, COREtec, or Shaw, with a 12–20 mil wear layer to handle heavy traffic. $2-4 per sf.Rigid Core Vinyl: This material is available in SPC (stone polymer composite) and WPC (wood polymer composite) types.

The traffic is always heavy in these areas which makes turnover a bit easier than more rural locations.

This is all conjecture as I am not an estimator or contractor, but I know Monteray Consan 20 works well.That was my fear with this quote, it's heavy charges to tear down and almost nothing about doing the drywall after they tear it down. 

Now my focus is on heavy rehab mix use/ multi-families that can be delivered below replacement costs and  $400/sf+ outsale new construction opportunities.

There is a lot of grey area on this site, as there is on most sites, and in the interest of wanting to be fair to posters and not be ridiculously heavy handed, most mods will give posters the benefit of the doubt on the front end, maybe with removing a post and a warning or something similar.

Their concept is not new and has been around for ages with people renting rooms in college towns and more expensive markets (NYC, LA) however this is a centralized more hands off management approach to self managing by letting them do all the heavy lifting for you which allows you to scale in less time so yes the concept definitely works and even better with their technology behind it.