I have 5 separate LLCs which have all been connected through the Online Banking feature so I can see them all in one place and transfer money between them seamlessly.

I can't seem to find any property with better numbers in the market where the growth is i.e all the major cities and surrounding suburbs in Florida. 

I was worried for a minute when the county mailed a survey to me asking how I felt about STR’s, but now that the review of their system is over, I feel confident that they won’t make any more major changes here for a while.

In the most recent past, this margin continued to contract, and the forecast is that office cap rates will rise, and that hotel cap rates, although higher as well, will have a smaller delta over office cap rates, down to sub-100 basis points.Despite lower trading volume, luxury class deals and deals in major markets are getting done.

It's an area in which STR's have been around much longer than the existence of the major booking channels. 

And the answer is always the same :-) There is no way to accurately do this...too many variables and moving parts, plus it varies too much from one locale to another.You need to find a really good General Contractor and pay him to walk the property with you....over and over....until you feel really comfortable estimating yourself, and that should take years.Alternatively there are online calculators (even one here in the tools section) but I would not rely on them for the reasons listed above.

Granted, if your plan is to swap properties before major capital expenses, that makes it easier --- pretty standard plan.Otherwise, just use whatever investment plan you have for the extra cash flow. 

5) I've noticed with the free contracts I've found online they have inspection periods.

You don't want to buy something based on our online advice and get stuck.Personally I am not sure you would profitable in Seattle.

Columbus has become a major tech hub in the midwest with large companies like Intel investing $20 billion, Amazon investing $3.5 billion, Google building 2 new data centers: one in downtown Columbus and the other in right outside of U.S. 33 in Lancaster.