I think once you have modernized the unit and brought it up to date the value adds are mainly to make it easier to rent, increase rental revenue and set your unit apart from others.

Not only would I love to know thoughts on the new tax bill and property ownership, but just the profitability in general when it comes to PITI and then tax returns (I pay no state taxes on income thanks to FL residence).Would love any insight on how to make either a reality (or to be dissuaded and brought back to reality lol)As always, I really appreciate the attention to detail and deliberate effort this forum goes to in order to provide guidance.

Investor partners funded the equity and brought in the debt.

@Diana Muresan brought up a very important point of the NetWorth Requirement and 'experience' that many lenders would want to see.

Truth is, during the project, it brought us quite some headaches and the big majority of people saying that it wouldn't be possible to finalize the ideas we had.

They brought all the money to the deal.

I do not think that it would be out of the blue for me to ask them to leave as I have brought it up previously in response to late payment and their complaints about utility costs. 

Yet drive 5 minutes and there are actual cows and actual fields, several natural springs, nature preserves..... it's night and day from downtown Orlando 25 minutes away.The wekiva parkway toll project http://www.wekivaparkway.com/ has brought Orlando Toll Road access to Apopka and Mount Dora making commuting easier than from more gridlocked cities closer to Orlando. 

I bought another apartment (in another state, because why to make things easy if we can do them complicated) and this one brought me 10k in one year just because of the price of the apartments at market went up, so lost here, won there.

It is still frustrating as it was most likely an AirBnB guest that brought them in, but in the end we are solely responsible.2) We allow dogs as we bring our dogs to the house.