Finishes are quite different between the two options.In this case, without additional info on how you arrived at your hold numbers regarding income, I would definatly flip this property.

Then you divide the property by 27.5 for a residential property to arrive at your annual allowable deduction.  

It is really hard to comment here as we don't know how you arrived at any of your numbers what is involved in the $30k rehab? 

Only people that have no clue about real lead gen would make such an amateur's claim.Would you board an airplane with a 4% arrival rate?

Some of my STR tenants even arrive with their own Xbox or Playstation and a small HDTV. 

I've often struggled with the process of presenting a low-value offer, but have distilled the process to explaining how I've arrived at the offer, from a starting point of looking at comps to determine an ARV, then moving on to the rehab and holding costs, and ending with an explanation that we need to make a conservative profit for our efforts and the risks we are assuming.I'm looking for suggestions on how to streamline this process to something akin to an elevator pitch, i.e. how to get the whole message across in 30 to 60 seconds without losing the audience.

Let me quickly help you arrive at what you may realistically  pay for the property, usually referred to as the maximum purchase price. 

File a petition in the probate court to revoke the redemption certificate because of the taxpayer's fraud on the court.   

I'm currently posted out to a different base but my home is still in Pet. It

As an engineering firm (National Flood Experts) we've been able to qualify properties for flood designation removals and we have success petitioning FEMA to get that done.