Its ALL about knowledge and your team, 

As a buyer, you can leverage the knowledge and experience of your team to find the best investment for you and navigate to a successful closing.

Not sure if this growth of Raleigh triangle area will stay as it is or we will see a slow down and 5-10% correction this year.

I'm seeing 3% as a suggested benchmark which feels high but I've also been out of the commercial space for some years so my knowledge is dated.  

For example, fruit trees planted in orchard form in the 1995 planting season become assessable on the 2000 lien date." is from our State our CPA has followed this discription and our property has some extra land we have planted . it must be systematic planting and not done as ortimental. but Tenets stay longer as well. 

They will probably stay longer and I would take someone offing 15% anyway.

The federal tax code establishes stringent criteria, including guest stays limited to seven days on average and the provision of basic hotel-like services, to qualify for this advantageous tax treatment.Understanding the mechanics of the short-term rental tax loophole is imperative.

If the credit is destroyed the renter may have no reason to pay rent beyond that point and may just stretch out their legal stay out of spite.

I'm pretty sure BP has an article about realtors working with investors that is definitely a good thing to read up on. other than that be ready to spend a little money, be ready to run comps, and re-hab "numbers"  on properties for your investment side all around just prepare yourself and soak up as much information as you possibly can because learning the realtor side of the real estate world and the investment side are two, I wouldn't say completely different things but there is a lot more information to stack on top of the realtor knowledge.

Also, I'm not sure staying one week for the first time would let you determine that but you know better.But then, as you suggest yourself, there's gonna be plenty of empty properties generating little rental income.