Unless you rent out a room in the actual property you are living in (and the owner is there when rented out), you are limited to 30 rental nights max a year of short term rentals (and they won't accept a short term unit or ADU within a multi unit building where the owner lives in a different unit and wants to short term rent a vacate unit. 

It will likely be easier to get acceptance of a more accurate appraisal with support from a performing lease.

Any advice on how to make your first purchase with little money down is accepted. 

We screen first, telling tenants that we don't accept smokers, we want a 670 credit score or more, that we want them to bring verifiable gross monthly income at least 3x the monthly rental to any showing we set up, etc.

Those are most likely to be accepted.

Im trying to attempt a short sale, but goodleap won’t accept a 6k settlement.

What was your DOM before you accepted this offer? 

After the seller accepts your offer, you'll be able to do the inspection, and you should get copies of contracts and estoppels from the seller. 

I will give an offer today and if accepted will close in a week or so.

I too have recently accepted a Leasing Consultant position.