Gill's book, but if it is proposing the same scheme as Mr. 

I have been reading Brandon Turner's "The Book on Rental Property Investing" and have learned a lot but wanted to get on here and ask for advice from everyone.  

I recommend reading the book traction and following EOS - they have a one page business plan that is awesome to follow. any planner can work it's a matter of creating the plan and how to monitor and follow through with it which eos teaches

Book a flight from Portland to Orlando rent a hotel and car and go to the planning department and building department in person and get to the folks that were running the permit and discuss paths to completion..

Hey Mike, I’m a broker and investor here in Sacramento, and I manage over 100 properties on Airbnb for investors.The Sacramento market is very stable, we do a lot of midterm business, but we like to mix it with short term in order to maximize cash flow and limit gaps between bookings, or “orphan days.“ When can we see the project?

You should start getting bookings almost immediately. 

How can I get bookings in this type of environment in the dead of winter? 

The other book you mentioned caters more to that audience and gets people hooked on the idea that they can invest in real estate with no money and then teaches them how in subsequent books. 

As of 2-3 weeks ago my Airbnb has been listed, the first week of its posting the first month was already almost fully booked out.

Brandon Turner wrote a book for BP called Investing with Low or No Money Down - start with that.