Readers should seek professional advice.Thank you for your wonderful response, Ashish!

As stated, currently building captial and hoping to buy an investment property (whether it be more likely a fix/flip, or a rental), within the next year.

Hopefully, you find the info below helpful.

Thank you Rod, I have will have to keep trying and hope that they answer or reach out to us.

I hope it works out ..

I don't expect to know everything by then, but I hope to develop a basic strategy that prevents me from making the most common and costly mistakes that a newbie can make.

Good cash flow but also will hopefully see some appreciation?

I am hoping this number is extremely conservative given that our contractors, inspector, and realtor walked it as well. 

It's likely a scam anytime they sound like AI or the grammar is weird or they use the word "kindly", if they ask for you to respond to them off-platform, if they say their employer will pay for it, if they ask if the dates they've specified are still open (when they can clearly see they are open on your calendar), if they ask for a video of your property (they probably want to set up a duplicate listing with your photos and video and scam others out of money), or if they want a long term booking and they have just joined the platform and have no reviews (could have been evicted from somewhere else, and hope a newbie will let them in with no background check, they'll end up not paying or credit card is bad).  

I hope this helps.