I would love to hear what others have to say as well.

Is there anything stopping me from hiring a personal part time manager to basically just take the calls, contact my subs, and turn the unit over for say a flat fee each month with bonuses for every lease renewal(to incentivize keeping tenants happy)?

Regarding inspection cost, for someone investigating such a property, I would think it would be possible to for a much lower fee, say a couple of hundred, to do a  quicker investigation of the property.  

So at this point I am not inclined to renew the lease and my question is, would you experts out there say as long as she pays on time, its all that matters?

You may be able to find a path with an international bank like HSBC or Barclays, but most of the time buyers will leverage their assets (say a line of credit against property or securities in the US) or pay with cold hard cash.

Your current $25k would be enough deposit for say, a $65k property that needs a $8k rehab (25% deposit ~$16.5k, ~$8.5k rehab).

I'm another pro flooring installer, and I will say a big ditto to Joshua Crossman 's post.

Lets say a sales price of $260k, and a loan balance of $160k, which Im guessing since you said about $100k in equity.

But go more for I will make x amount of calls for x amount of days, or I will find this person (lets say a realtor) by networking around in my free time until I find one that personally invests.

I'd say a biggie is that will be no realtor involved so if it ever did make sense for you to sell you can save on the commission.