You would need to track everything you spend on the business unit and write those off and anything shared would be times 50%.

This is the true organizational and budgeting tool that every investor should be using for their projects.

I was budgeting for 10% per unit (about $50) but unfortunately my current company has a minimum of $75 per unit, giving me a monthly of $300.

They take good care of the properties, but there's not enough attention given to pricing strategy and they spend money like nobody's business (not a problem when they were spending their own money on the master lease model, but a BIG problem when they were suddenly spending OUR money as the PM).

I also wouldn't touch hilltop with a 10' pole. struggled. old homes, over budget renovations, lots of issues. realtors push people here since it's the only place cheap houses close to downtown can be good but homes are 1900-1920.

You need to remember that, hopefully, this is a long-term play for you, so work with a trusted STR designer (I have great recommendations), and spend the money upfront so you can be the most successful in your area.

I'm going off the understanding that you still need to spend 500+ hours in the business to achieve material participation (please correct me if I'm wrong). 

The reason I asked about the amount is I see people always searching for the "perfect note" when they had 100 opportunities pass right by and spend thousands to buy 5 loans a year which they could have done little work and still found similar loansWe buy non performing to get them reperforming and we also have some shorter term RTL's (performing) for cash flow purposes.

Flipping a brand new home likely wouldn’t bring much profit - especially after having to close twice when you first buy it, and later sell it.Maybe you have millions to spend and I’m just missing the big picture… but when I think of “income” I’m usually thinking “net income” after you factor in expenses, like purchase price or building costs?  

During that time we were able to save more money and our budget went up.