At this point, whichever route you go, I am sure you will find success. 

I would imagine the substantive nature of the expense and the fact that this repair does increase the life of the deck, even though it was a repair, would mean depreciation is the route to take?

But personally, we have fell in love with the STR route and hope to keep scaling up. 

And yeah, software....as beneficial as it would have been for me to go that route, it's not in my blood.

I don't know if taking time away from your day job to do flipping is going to be the best route to get you to the income you need to purchase them.

You can ask for an signature loan under 50k maybe you can use that route to acquire properties under 50K.I invest in ATL Ga and i do well with the process that I have.Walter 

Deciding which route to take is a blog itself. 

Could maybe give it a whirl with your Cape Coral place for the extra cost of furniture.Whichever route you choose, best wishes!

Once you are in a month-to-month situation (if you choose to go that route) you can increase the rent at anytime with 30 days notice.

I've been researching that route too but can't really afford to hold on to a property for a year without making money on it.