It's more of how it's difficult to just have sytems in place without, say, a mentor or slowly scaling up.

So I just got an executed contract, with 10 day inspection of course.Sarasota, FL - I'd say a B neighborhood a few blocks from Riverview HS...This is long distance as I live in NYC...$220k2 lots next to each other, each are .56 acres. 1 lot has 95 year old house about 1500sf living area, no garage, PLUS an efficiency unit, lol, 400sf.

If you're looking for the quickest fixes that will make it most marketable, I'd say a fresh coat of paint and some new floors!  

I will say a month .

You really have to review years of returns and financials to see how they are trending an what monthly rent they can support.Retail is generally 35% down especially since this is a 2 tenant property the underwriting from a lender is usually one tenant goes dark there is not enough rent to breakeven paying the mortgage like if you had say a 4 to 5 tenant center (usually 30% down).

When you say a 25% return, let me make sure we are on the same page. 

But the OP wants to learn lease option assignments so I will stay on track.You marketing piece should be trying to attract low equity, because low equity has a problem: selling with an agent generally takes 9 to 14% of the value of the house, due to agents commissions, closing costs, sellers concessions, vacancy costs paying the PITI, improving the cosmetic look of the property to compete with all the other properties on the MLS, etc. so in California with everything being so expensive, say a $800,000 house, 10 percent being $80,000, 15% being $120,000, most people don't have that savings get rid of their house.Renting out $800,000 house might bring $2500-$3500 a month in rent, but the PITI might be significantly higher, perhaps $5000 a month or more.So what to do?

Can the weekly rent you bring in during say a 12 week vacation rental period cover all of your yearly expenses?  

I will only be getting back enough to pay off the loan and then having a chunk of cash (10k to say 40k) on top of that depending on the replacement cost numbers.However, if I have a partial loss, then the replacement coverage will pay 100% of the repairs minus my deductible - as opposed to not having replacement coverage where if I have a partial loss (say a kitchen fire), they will depreciate the damaged items and only give me what they are worth as of the loss.

I'd say a strong contender to them or is the MLSDealFinder people.