@Louis Zameryka if you’re considering a beach STR, and there is nothing familial tying you to Gulf Shores, I think you’ll see better performance year-over-year in Destin.

You decide to have a cost segregation study performed and based on the study, your assets are split up between the following categories: Tangible Personal Property, 5-Year Useful Life, 15-Year Useful Life and 39-Year Useful Life. 5% of your assets were reclassified to Tangible Personal Property (to be fully expensed in year one), 10% of your assets were reclassified to a 5-Year Useful Life, 15% of your assets were reclassified to a 15-Year Useful Life and 70% was determined to stay with a 39-Year Useful Life.

You could join a GC's team starting as a laborer (crap work at first like job site cleanup, managing people's tools, etc.) and will be given more skilled tasks from time to time to see what you're good at. 

I had an excellent experience purchasing the property and so far the property is performing according to my expectations.

I have a dedicated cleaning crew that takes 100% of my cleaning tasks.

If there was an agreement that both parties were waiting on the occupancy permit and it has now been provided, the seller should officially request the buyer to perform. 

If your interested and eager I have some tasks I can use some help with. 

That being said I would look for funds that align their fees with your success through a small asset management fee/ most of their fees tied to the asset performance.

Of course rate and terms are something to consider but knowing they can perform/close and protect your reputation in the process is key.

Buy the property on how it's performing.