@Melanie AlzugrayInvesting in a resort you and your family enjoy is a fantastic approach.

Your focus on the Dallas market and Fix and Flip projects sounds solid, especially with the DIY approach and having an interior designer on your team. 

What approach is correct?

Really like this approach 

Can try to reposition to Class B, but neighborhood may impede these efforts.Vacancy Est: Historically 10%, but 15-20% should be used to also cover tenant nonpayment, eviction costs & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores of 560-620 (approaching 22% probability of default), many blemishes, but should have no evictions in last 2 years.

Or you have to take a value add approach to make it worth the hassle. 

I’ve worked with investors who faced similar permit issues, and what worked for them was approaching the local municipality with transparency.

Would this be more in line with the "gifting" approach? 

Here’s how they approached it:1.Scraping Listings: They used web scraping tools like Beautiful Soup and GPT APIs to scan Airbnb for properties in their target areas.2.Image Analysis: They trained an AI model to analyse listing photos, identifying homes with solid potential (good structure, layout, location) that were undervalued due to low-quality photos.

You're in charge of this hands-on approach.