I am currently in the process of learning all that I can about real estate, and a partner and I plan on entering the space after we graduate.

Every available space in the kitchen was filled with enough food to feed a dozen people for a week. 

Then all bets are off.If you build or buy an STR now you are simply speculating going into a down turn (fact) at peak prices (fact) into a market space that is being devastated (fact) - travel and leisure business' are nonoperational in most of the country and the world and if not in your area now it will be tomorrow or the day after or next week.

In my conversations with park owners who have done the conversion, it has cost about $2500 per space on average, but keep in mind those were larger parks. 

Anything further than that and you're more than likely going to be observing home prices from a completely different market space & climate. 

I worked in office buildings all my life, and in later years, subleased office space for my businesses.

massive cosmetic repairs, crawl space, electrical, kitchen, doors/windows, attic venting and insulation.

and they got some good advice, but they also mentioned they had a roth, so I was thinking: a withdrawal from a Roth would be the best way to access capital, only incurring minor taxes on the gainsand perhaps with the additional step of paying the taxes to remove funds from the 401K and putting those funds in the roth to withdraw prior to any rental purchase.Yes you would pay taxes, but no penalty and it becomes a fairly cheap way to access money without the baggage of retirement account investing or using high interest rate hard money etc.You are an expert in this space I see, so curious about your opinion

So in the FI space, when people are doing safe withdrawls, are those from brokrage accounts?

Having spent years working in the turnkey property space, I’ve seen how much it can benefit investors, but I’ve also seen plenty of scammy companies.