If you want to take a vacation, be out sick for an extended period, or even just move on, you'll need to "hire" and train a replacement.In terms of "The Cashflow Quadrant" (E - S - B - I), you're in the bottom-left corner: you're self-employed.You would need to move to the top-right corner and become a business owner: the business needs to run even when you're out sick, on vacation, "on family leave", etc.If you're new to the concept, "The Cashflow Quadrant" looks like this:E | B-----S | I"E" is you're an employee in someone else's business. 

This would probably help since the next one I build I could immediately put for sale and do a short term rental while it sells.I have many years of construction experience and have also done a fix and flip, in addition to building ground up construction, as well as 10 years of entrepreneurial experience running a paddle board rental company... i have a BS in Physics from Georgia Tech , a PhD in Theoretical Chemistry from UT Austin, and did Postdoctoral research using Computational Engineering where I designed, manufactured, and tested a shock mitigating metamaterial...

The buyer can just include in any offer as a term of the offer that the seller pay their buyer broker.

But my short term rentals are for people working at a refinery, not people vacationing.My logic is this: most of the people I'm renting to are accustomed to getting screwed out of their money one way or the other. 

You will also get a lot of people who want 1-2 year leases (which I am sure you don't want that short term of a lease).

I think you may be mixing up some terms. 

I have two concepts in mind: one leverages lakefront property through an ecotourism pop-up glamping concept that’s geared towards long-term evolution into a small housing development and lake club.

There isn't any benefit to us to go through the extra work of background check, get lawyer to approve language etc. 

Since acquiring it, I’ve fully renovated the property and transformed it into a successful short-term rental on 5 acres of land.

Finance with a bank that's comfortable with a long-term fixed rate mortgage in the LLCs name.