I am curious to know if anyone can recommend a real estate agent or firm that deals with corporate rentals for homes. 

From there we will lease half the building to a corporate rental company and the other half separately. 

I have a friend who subleases their single family rental home to a corporate housing company who then houses families temporarily during house renovations/repairs from insurance claims and other corporate work housing situations for travel.  

My partners and I have a lot of questions when it comes to the different corporations.

Remember, LLC's corporate veil is a legal matter and the lender has no fiduciary responsibility. 

Then you can go 50/50 on RE Partnership and he can own Shop LLC (or Corp or whatever) and Shop LLC just pays rent to RE Partnership.If you're only in it for the real estate this could help reduce a large liability burden on you that will come with owning the shop.

We would really like to buy a rental all cash with proceeds, but all the taxes on the active income is around 46% after fed, state, and self employment taxes. from IRS.gov:Closely held corporations.A closely held corporation can qualify as a real estate professional if more than 50% of the gross receipts for its tax year came from real property trades or businesses in which it materially participated.

Here in San Antonio we are seeing roughly 68% occupancy, with heavy leisure demand in the spring and summer and more business/ corporate travel in the fall and winter. 

I plan to house hack and do STR for corporate housing. 1st year: -1850 CF2nd year: $300 CF 

Keep in mind if you are borrowing in FL, you will pay transfer taxes on each movement from entity to personal and back. and I am not an attorney, but you do want to talk to yours about when the moving back and forth does to your claim that the LLC is a not a sham business and not allow your corporate veil to pierced.