TxDot has made an offer on a portion of the land for upgrades. 

Hi Myriam,Welcome to the BP forum and starting can be a little confusing but that is why we are here to help. 

I'm also on the board of CFRI, the local chapter of the National REIA so that might be a good resource for you to check out too. 

I would consider selling a property to pay off the credit card debt.Maybe your husband can manage the STR listings and potentially do the cleaning.Best of luck

But in my mind that's your best case scenario, take your profit at the beginning, maybe buy a couple of the houses at a discount on the back end as rentals if it works out, but for sure I wouldn't want my profits for improving raw land tied to the final sale of the home unless I was incentivized to do so.  

@Ryan KonenThat is a significant amount of leverage and can make it very challenging to make $ on.

Cap Rates in the area.

That is far from “the norm”.

I now want to list a FURNISHED monthly rental - I do see that there are furnished apartments listed on Zillow under the heading "FURNISHED APARTMENTS".

@James @James Mays yes I do and it's exactly the same.Good Investing...