@William Coet it’s a different business model altogether.I love highly desirable areas that attract highly skilled high income college educated workforces.They tend to be more liberal and therefore the landlord tenant laws.The percent of their income that goes to rent is typically much less than 20% so a rental increase of 5-10% is nothing to them.They are typically lower cap rate areas and therefore every dollar of net operating income that is earned is explosive to the underlying asset value.

- Any recommendations on how to vet CPAs and cost segregation firms?

If pets are allowed by the HOA I would strongly recommend you consider allowing pets as more than 50% of travelers travel with their pets and that will make your priority more desirable.

There is a time and place to be lenient and forgiving on things within a lease, when someone is not respecting something big like this, you have to unfortunately be firm. 

Between a demanding FT job (that I enjoy,) a wife who also works FT, and two young children, I have no real desire to "all in" to real estate as a FT career at this point in my life.

The top ones we see in our bookkeeping firm and that I've experienced personally doing BRRRR's are overleveraging and romanticizing the cash flow. 

If so, any law firm or agency you can recommend to help with this?

If they are truly a local firm you'll want to vet their experience thoroughly to verify that they have the depth of experience to handle what you're anticipating.

Good STR areas are often times desirable places to live as well, so prices tend to be higher in my experience. 

Darrell,Usually when properties sit on the market it's because the property is either overpriced or it's not in a desirable area, were buyers want to buy.