The plan is to get that under my belt then continue to build aggressively.

Exploring vacant land in suburbs or up-and-coming neighborhoods could offer you cheaper build costs and potentially lower taxes as well.

If you're using hard money simply for the purchase and plan to refinance, the hard money would actually require less than long term financing.

Are you planning in investing in that area for awhile? 

The rules are stringent as well. 

Our exchange lawyer did not communicate that very well i think. 

If you plan to use an attorney that is not experienced in this area an Adjuster may be more important. 

In those towns is where the STRs entrepreneurs usually invest, they are mostly digital nomads as well and they come for the summer go when it rains, and when it rains locals fill the spot with some tourist to boot. 

I go into more details about strategies to protest with my clients as well.

There's no contest, although some other countries could work as well in specific niches.