I do not really have any lessons so far, I just think I got caught with the pretty rough timing, out interest rate is pretty high and the industry itself got saturated, but I think if we stay the course and follow the strategy of growing reviews and customer base, we should be successful Did you work with any real estate professionals (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?

Is the area saturated with furnished rentals?

It’s also saturated with investors fighting over what’s left out here.

I have absolutely no other funds besides my 1031 and I feel like the Charlotte area is so saturated that I'm not sure what to get.

Hillsborough and Tampa in particular are very saturated.

Account Closed is your area of Florida saturated with MHPs.

Not impossible but it's a large investment in a pretty saturated market.

A lot of people have said that the STR market is over-saturated but I have to disagree.

The rents are just not moving up fast enough as the market is getting saturated with new investors. 

Second, while I'm not familiar with your location, I wanted to put it out there that when you do move on from that property, you might also consider doing a  medium-term rental (30+ days) with your property for a couple of reasons:  1) most jurisdictions have little to now formal requirements for rentals over 30 days so you don't run up against the restrictions the STR market has and, likewise, there is not currently anywhere near the saturation as with STRs.