If you're new debt service was $613/month, operating expenses of 49% would result in you breaking even.

Your dad would still have to worry about the operator running the asset and paying the note on time.

Anyone has experience renting to short term rental operators, especially Domio (https://www.staydomio.com/)We had some challenging situations with our brand new built SFH rental.

Even if her will stated something else the the property would still go to you upon her death.A joint tenancy or joint tenancy with right of survivorship (JTROS, JTWROS or JT TEN WROS) is a type of concurrent estate in which co-owners have a right of survivorship, meaning that if one owner dies, that owner's interest in the property will pass to the surviving owner or owners by operation of law, and avoiding probate.

@Harrison CookYour post kindles lots of questions.In the "good old-days" most heating systems were vastly oversized for the building they were heating - energy was relatively cheap, insulation was non-existant to poor ... so it was easier and safer to {drastically} oversize.Today, while energy {in North America}  is still relatively cheap for the moment,  we have a much better understanding of how to make buildings more efficient {though you might not think so looking at the construction industry in the U.S.A. and Canada}  and there are often more cost-effective measures than simply replacing an old, over-sized heating plant with a new, over-sized heating plant.You really need to - or at lease should -  perform a heat load analysis to properly size your heating system, a component of which, is determining the rate of heat loss of the building envelope.  

The past year I've acquired two houses in Wisconsin that operate/going to operate as vacation rentals.I've been a lurker on the forums long before I had an account, and a big fan of the podcast.

Zillow is operating with data and a strong market influence that the public simply does not have.

It’s  not as easy as loading up Zillow and combing through.

I'm over in the NW Orlando area of Apopka, not too far from you in Tampa, so I'd imagine things are similar in the two areas with how GCs operate. 

Think of how turnkey operators work.