These are low-cost items that really can take a guest's stay from good to excellent.

My motivation to go after this property is that it is a 2017 build, in an excellent neighborhood with other new construction communities, in a highly appreciating South Florida market, with roughly 160k in equity built into the purchase.

Hoping to leverage his market expertise to find excellent deals. 

As far as crunching numbers go, if any of you have good ideas for how to do that....I like to play in Excel and use a spreadsheet often but if any of you have ideas for how to project the potential benefits over a year to 3-5 years of time by using any online calculators I'd love any ideas.  

She has EXCELLENT CREDIT and also just started collecting social sec (apprx $2500/month).

Excellent.

And the returns are still excellent.2) In the right markets, short term rents allow you to earn far greater profits than regular long term rentals. 3) You can find ways to get discounts even in areas that are great returns.

Your target investment pool is exactly what they specialize in and you'll be spurred on and managed for by an excellent team of systems-minded ninjas!

@Lior NoachBRRRR comes down to the specific deal, there generally isn't a "type" that is going to automatically be a candidate just because it's in foreclosure or whatever. 

Seller financing is usually option 2.Try, but I doubt this seller is a good candidate.