She is requesting that I pain the kitchen, repair chipped Formica on countertop and Formica that is coming up on counter and also fix or replace hood over gas stove.

Hi@Grant KeatonAirBNB and VRBO are still going through some growing pains in the Salt Lake area.

Is it painful and is often like pulling teeth?

Since this house will be pain in full, with HELOC what the best way to pay Heloc/should we refinance it later?

I did buy a home through Hubzu before and the title company was a pain to deal with.

I haven't had many issues with students destroying my properties - and while it would be a little pain to deal with you can always go after their parents if they were co-signors.  

I made a post on Facebook, there was A LOT of pain, stress and lost weekends involved; 9 to 10 hour days, 6 to 8 hours on weekends (I could of studied more but I essentially maxed out my brain's capacity to make things stick).

unless you are ex-military and strive on self-inflicting pain upon yourself and your wallet.

This might sound harsh, but I'm actually trying to save you a ton of pain and money.  

My brother and I have considered creating some software to solve this problem but would love to hear more about how big of a pain/problem keeping track of these seller-financed deals are if we were to try and tackle this problem further.Best,Preston WalstonReal Estate Agent / Entrepreneur