Tampa Bay, specifically Pinellas County, has been a vacation-home Mecca for over a century and we shouldn't ever have a drop-off in occupancy. 

We are not living in the conservative 19th century.

Keller Williams, Century 21, smaller local brokerage?

Half way through the renovation of a century old building is no time to become sentimental-or it will turn into a money pit. 

its own Century Community Lender or another Private Home Mortgage Lender?

They are typically mid century 1 story with basement type deals,  where they put the staff quarters and utility stuff in the basement and have the residents upstairs.   

@Benji RobertsHaving just come out through a 'once in a century flood' - for the second year in a row ... and the third time in a decade, I would look long and hard before making an offer on a property in a designated flood zone.

They are typically all in rougher areas and built around the turn of the century.  

I left the program.I tried a few other things since then, but I knew all along that real estate was my thing, so I took some classes, got my license, and joined Century 21.

  $15,000 provides you access to their knowledge, which is paltry and lacking compared to the cumulative CENTURIES of experience from MORE EXPERIENCED investors available for $FREE.99  on the interwebs.