Most ideal would be seller financing, but open to creative strategies for a cash-flowing property. 

What several of these landlords have now done is instead of having a pet deposit, which you cant do with service animals, is that they just incorporate it into the normal deposit.

Go to Pace's group, Creative Financing With Pace Morby, on FB, and look for "gator lenders".

Don't be so quick to indebt your paid off townhome until your learn creative financing and review all your options.

So its either all cash, findings those needle-in-a-haystack lenders, or would need to be some other creative structure

I think it's just a matter of being a bit creative and finding opportunities to add value to a property.

I have never attempted to make a seller financing or any creative financing offer before so I am trying to get a starting point.Thank you!

Any insights or creative ideas would be greatly appreciated!

It's a VA loan, so long as someone can meet the requirements.I have it as a subject to, subto, so it can be done with creative financing too. 

Very creative, but solid.This also may offer the potential for you to keep your other home and rent it out as an asset, but that's between you and the investor who buys your aunts home to subsequently rent it back to you.