The ladies in these small mountain towns are raising kids, cleaning in-between school hours, sometimes even having their kids help them work the business after hours.Before you read, No, we chose not to start a cleaning company and pay via W2. 

You are predicating this on raising the rent, which is your right as landlord.

In the middle of the direct mail campaign our second child was born and it became clear that I wouldn't be able to devote the time needed to work my full-time W-2, build a flipping business (with the goal of saving enough money to buy an apartment), and raise 2 kids. 

You did raise an issue that no one has brought up.

Investigating Days on Market:When you see homes sitting on the market for 60+ days, it does raise a red flag, but it doesn’t necessarily mean rental demand is low.

Bottom line up front: how much time is too much time for visitors? 25%-50% of the month? 75%?? My water bills are high…I think it’s because my tenants have their bf/gf there all the time. Not “living” but stay there a...

You can certainly raise your room rates $30 to be more honest in your pricing.

It sounds like the project is getting a lot of pushback from locals but potentially worse than that is that the article says Shared Estates had until 9/1/2024 to raise the money for the development, but now they've altered the agreement to give the fund until end of 2025 to raise the money.A representative of the town is quoted in article as saying that after signing the agreement in January, Shared Estates examined it's finances and asked to have the agreement changed.So potentially the projects I invested in aren't doing well, or they're doing fine but funds from those projects are being diverted elsewhere.

Raising money was like picking apples and investors don’t careInvestors need to be more diligent going forward if they want to truly understand their risk

I would say the majority of syndicators are closer to what you note: deal sourcing, marketing, capital raising, but they do not partner with local operators.