There's barely properties where you find are breaking even in this area and having 75% of rental income to cover PITI means the property has to already be deep in the money cash flowing already!

When they retired, they subdivided the family farm officially with the county and sold off the bare lots (and carried the financing) to generate their retirement income.

Keep digging in and price yours according to what the market can bare.

At a bare minimum you need a real estate agent that knows the market for STR.

I barely broke even on my first major rehab but I learned so much it was worth it 10x over.

Also we got a lot of bare ground with this location. 

Stretching to buy an investment where the math barely pencils out is trouble.

Barely enough for down payment on a small investment property and he’ll have to leverage it anyway.

I've been absolutely miffed as to why I'm not getting barely any interest from investors.

I barely believe me, and I lived through it in 2007.You're going to be doing much of this priming (and painting afterward) toward the end of the renovation period, not at the beginning.