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1st . Is the shared hosting going to be a SEO problem?
Script kiddies say yes. WhoIs Domain Tools say the average web site is hosted on a server with 600 other sites. Most of them probably don't link to each other, but I bet everyone reading this, who has a shared hosting plan, has at least one link from a site on the same IP that they don't know about.
2nd Is the fact that I back link to the restaurant, fishing, snorkeling, gift shop, and info websites to the villas sites and vise versa? I did this before no problem but now with shared hosting will it be OK? It’s not spam they are different business but I guess it could appear as spam.
Can we assume you link to these shops because people who fly in and rent a villa might want to go snorkeling, or eat at a restaurant? Those reasons are fair game.
3rd. Do I need a separate robot.txt file for each domain because I have shared hosting? Or can I just edit the robot.txt file I have now under the main domain folder?
You have permanent redirects point all the domains back to one, right? Just the one.
4th Can use my robot.txt file so that when I publish the 3 other villa websites I can block out the duplicate content pages?
Not sure what you mean. Go into a little more detail here?
5th. Will Google see the separate sitemaps per domain or just the one to the main domain folder?
If you're using 301s, there's only one domain. All the others just redirect to it.
6th I submit all my own domains manually to the big 3 website search engines and use webposition 4 for the smaller search engines; I regularly review my website stats, always adjusting websites content and coding when I read something new. Am I to the point that I need professional SEO help? I spend $500+ a month to just Adwords and Overture, and have for years…If I ranked better I would not need to pay per click… correct? Or is Adwords just a marketing expense I need to pay for, especially in my market?
Well are you getting more sales through ads than through natural search rankings? You're wasting your time submitting your sites to any search engines or directories. If you have repeat customers uploading their vacation pics, they're probably linking to them on their blog to show their friends, so if you focus on good content, good deals, good copy, and good marketing, you probably don't need an extra item in your business plan for search engine marketing.
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with an different ending (villa, villas, condo, condos, vacationhome, vacationhomes.) for the Villa rentals and most all are 301 redirects. All the domains are 5 to 7 years old and all contain prime keywords, so I don’t want to get rid of them. 
