my lender is willing to eat some of the fees to keep my rate.

The landlord will eat any court costs, damages and unpaid rent.

The hard money lender has tons of experience with lots of flippers in your market and if they approve the loan you'll know there's enough fat in the deal for them to be repaid. 

I can't cook and I like to eat. 

If this tax is small, you may decide to just eat it.

Much less competition in these areas, more distressed properties/sellers, higher % spreads in between Acquisition Cost / ARV, and less capital intensive overall to name just a few reasons.HMLs can be helpful for Acquisition but depending on the price of the property, the fees can eat up much of your profit, especially if there's not much "meat on the bones".

Staff cannot ask about the person’s disability, require medical documentation, require a special identification card or training documentation for the dog, or ask that the dog demonstrate its ability to perform the work or task.I can't speak to Florida law but Federal regs are in force.In the end, you just eat the extra cleaning, if any, but you can charge for damage caused by the guests or service animals.So in both cases of our service animal guests, they were excellent with zero issues.EDIT - The stupid forum prevents me from putting a link to the ADA rules -https://www.ada.gov/resources/service-animals-2010-requirements

You can get in the market with less money, could have more time to do a Reno/ make updates and force appreciation, and someone else is helping cover your mortgage.Growing up my dad would ask me “how do you eat an elephant?”  

If your reno is longer than a couple months the carrying costs will eat up that gross profit.

You can likely find a distressed property here in Houston in a good area with $80k-$100k out of pocket and fully funded by HML for the other % & rehab, then maybe keep some of the money in the house and have it more cash flow oriented or take all out and eat the little OTM play.