Based on what you have explained here and assuming that all of it is true, than you really only have two options to get it rented1.

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Watch out for what gets deducted in home warranty or concessions but those will be in offers you accept. 

I could do it 2-3 based off cash savings.

they usually say stick it in the bank.. so you can offer them a nice return above bank CDs and on an asset they already know and like etc..

He can spend the next few years-ish getting a finance degree through an online school while working part time, but he just got offered a full time position helping with sales for a local wholesale real estate company. 

The owner didn't have to deal with any of it, as we offered to take care of it for her.

What would you do in my shoes I don’t invest there so take this with a slight grain of salt but I’ve heard multiple stories of basically this exact scenario someone getting offered a big payday for something in Cumberland, rejecting it & always for some reason (house burned down, block got worse, sheetz decided they actually didn’t want someone’s land for a car wash after all) always selling for like 10-20k and regretting not selling. 

They are very likely based overseas.

Also if this property is on septic that also can throw a wrench into the ability to call a space "a bedroom" as septic systems are sized and permitted based on the bedrooms.