In the "industry", you would use an "Acquisition/Rehab" loan that allows you to use part of the loan to apply to the purchase of the property and you'll have some loan funds left over to use for the rehab.

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its too complicated for the average investor they wont understand it.

Strategic management is the difference maker in this industry.

About 90% of my coaching students bought properties and increased their net worth on average of $100,000 the year we worked together.

Real estate investing is forgiving; the average person can still make money even with some big mistakes.

This is where I'm very inexperinced and don't understand what is standard for industry or what could potentially bite me down the road.

It doesn't matter the company you work for as long as you are part of the real estate industry. 

I do not think they regulate this strictly on other industries like food service, or even medical.Sounds like the mayor or city planner or someone "important" had a bad stay at a STR somewhere.

If I had the business headquartered at some commercial or industrial space, I could deduct the entire cost of the space.