Call your company and ask for your cost basis (unless it is listed on a statement). 

If I rented an apartment and smelled weed in my bathroom everyday I would move out asap.

What counts most in RE are relationships, and this is as easy as going to RE meetups and adding every day just 1 new contact in your CRM, and following up every other month.  

Introduce yourself to people who are actually doing what you want to do every day as opposed to creating videos and selling educational materials. 

I give advice around this topic to clients every day and want to know if I'm missing something. 

We are everyday approaching a European model where people own less and less of both land and buildings. 

FICO, experience, and LTV are also factors but this is the basis of the loan.

I would need to know more specs on the house but with material shortages It's difficult to say how much to budget. 80K-120K for full gut perhaps but unsure with lumber beings so expensive and shortages.I would plan 9 months of vacancy between the pain you will endure pulling permits & having your contractors show up everyday to complete the work & then final inspections to get a CO. 

I'm not a tax expert and dont know how this would conflict with the tax deferred basis, but if doable, this isnt a bad option, either. 

STR....I can only imagine the groups of individuals who will rent this house on a short term basis.