The resort is experiencing significant new builds and someone is building a "Luxury Short Term Rental" community over on the other side of town they are trying to charge $4.5 million a pop for.

Its pretty much instantly in your account.....A lot of people use Cozy and other third party companies...... the downside is if you use the free service it takes days for you to actually have the $$ and the tenant can lodge disputes and "reverse" the payment through those services.... then you have to fight to get the $$ etc......

So it seems if you use VRBO it’s not needed, but for AIR I still can’t figure it out (I assume my lodge is not needed but that air may be over withholding)? 

The younger and lefter folks tend to be on the side of 'STRs are bad because the regular people can't find a house thing'...I think the other 90% likes the new lodging trend of STRs (vs Hotels) so much that they will thrive....Just my .02

As much as @Jason Hartman hates them I want to buy a 3 bed 3 bath luxury condo in either Orlando or Jacksonville Florida.

Occupancy & maintenance are going to the be biggest risks to your STR, and I see you doing market research and prep, but most properties you buy will require some level of improvement to get to clean, comfortable, and even luxurious.

Supply shortages and price gouging for labor and materials means that the only profitable housing to build is "luxury apartments" or rows of mcmansion single family homes.Unless the government incentivizes it, there will not be any small affordable homes being built.Add in layoffs and other problems to the mix, and I feel like housing prices will never come back down.I also think the society is going to collapse within the next few years due to various factors ( reddit.com/r/collapse ) including housing prices and other prices continuing to climb, pricing out more than 50% of the population from having children or living a normal life.

Plan :Well, we're planning to construct a luxury living-resort of 500 villa's, apartments & penthouses.

How to add value and 'specialness' to your lodging and make it more fun for all concerned.... 

One the one hand the cities will of course prefer the ability to generate additional tax revenue by imposing higher fees and lodging tax to those operating their properties to this capacity.