Never heard of them before....but your typical real estate "mentoring" guru will invite you to a free 2-3 hour session, and convince you to come to all day on Saturday or 3 day weekend course for $299-$399, when you are at that course, they'll convince you to be a Big Dog player for full on mentoring at $15,000-$50,000.   

Operations and lenders get handled first, vendors typically get pushed to the bottom of the pile. 

FL is also the toughest state in the country (based on my experience) for reliable contractors.If you don't need a ton of house, you could find a nice option for yourself and try to get a small rental.

Like Alicia mentioned, typically not advertised you will want to get to know the individuals.

I am weighing this option against investing in an S&P 500 ETF in the stock market (historical 10% return).

Typically, tenants will pay all utilities on long term rentals, so that comes off your plate.

You have other net rental income (profit) in other activities / rentals (cannot be self-rentals typically) that you can offset, and / or3.

I'd see if you got a warranty. in all of our new builds we actually have the deal underwritten by an external builders risk policy by an insurance company as a smaller builder it hedges our risk and helps the customers be very happy. it's typically 0.5% of the purchase price.

if you own the land free and clear there are options for financing with no upfront cost with closing costs and initial draw coming from the land 

Since there is not a tenant occupying the property, check your termination options.