@Jerryll Noorden  Although your response read like a spam email, I read the whole thing.

PS: to save others from the SPAM, here's the direct link to the lite version of the House Flipping Spreadsheet referenced above: https://www.houseflippingspreadsheet.com/demo-version.html

It also prevents the inconvenience of searching through potentially discarded or spam-marked emails.

Sure you may never see it but really it is not that expensive and I have made worse gambles that never paid off. 

Final thought: The 50% more profit from STR vs Long term rentals seems pretty glamorous...it’s like gambling at a casino and hitting 7’s....and then the dealer changes (regulation/inventory)There are over 2M STR listings in the US alone.

It is too much of a gamble. 

(basically being Certified), the selected contractor is basically 'winging it,' and you're probably taking a gamble. 

Make yourself unique, update your cabin, get creative and hang on….I admire your gamble of being leveraged in the smokies.

But it would be safer than trying to gamble in a gentrifying neighborhood in Atlanta for us beginners.

It is just some kind of spam