You'll also need to register as a business and pay lodging taxes.

Columbia hotels have reasonable rates and don't sell out enough to push business to alternative lodging. 

I think this is a creative avenue to still generate revenue without running into lodging laws but still very much in its beginning stages.

IF the DB is non-responsive, you go to the Dept of RE in the area and lodge a complaint. 

I recently came across an Absentee Owner/Turn Key Motel Lodge opportunity in Eastern Colorado. 

I recently came across an Absentee Owner/Turn Key Motel Lodge opportunity in Eastern Colorado.

I see travel and associated lodging costs from FL to your final destination and back as a personal expense.After you arrived at your evacuation destination, I would say that you could deduct the local travel miles from your lodging to your property and to your property manager. as well as, any direct costs you incurred in repairing and cleaning out your property. 

Make the tenants have renters insurance which will cover their belongings and temporary lodging in the event of a disaster. 

What advice would you give to someone who is new to the real estate industry and is looking to get into residential property estates and lodges/resorts?

I would say that Cincinnati has always had a very strong local Real estate interest which is increasing with out of state investors – it’s on the circuit for many seminars and events (Great Wolf Lodge last November) and has Vena Jones Cox on WMKV and the OREIA organization etc. etc.