Your best/safest bet would be a regular lease combined with an option to purchase.

And while yes, no one has the same pricing (combination of factors), I also continue to check on a regular basis our rankings and how we "present" on total costs per stay vs. our competitors.My gut says there is price creep and we might have a ways to go before the market really corrects.

If I leave this amount in Sch-E, I get taxed at ordinary income tax rate at Federal and State level, which along with my regular W2 income can be substantial.

Those funds are not mine until there is a sales settlment, or default or refund to the buyer. 

I'm the VP of a roofing company in South Florida and work with a few good PM companies on a regular basis, a lot of bad ones too.There are good and bad PMs in each of those companies. 

State's differ quite a bit not just with their laws but with how certain aspects of a sale are customarily handled.

Regular storage building lookon the outside.

I fire clients regularly. 

Share what you are looking for and the deals you are working on with your network in person and on social media regularly.2.

I am seeing a crackdown on STRs not so much as a result of any hotel lobby, but as a result of regular citizens complaining to their elected officials that they don't like living next to a hotel.Can't really blame them.