As far a a dollar goes, you cant eat it, wear it, sleep on it, or send it to someone across the world within a few minutes for pennies. 

So when you go out to eat for a wedding anniversary, you go to McDonalds right?

looking at your breakdown, the margin leaves very little room for error, especially with holding costs and commissions eating into your profit. 

You’ll eat it on fees with HELOCS on investment properties.

Take notes from a few people who tell you how to bake a cake, go eat some cake and get your own ideas.  

But remember that the kind of work the affiliates do, that will eat up all your profit in a few repair jobs.Turnkey property means that the place will be fully renovated and things working fine for atleast a few years.

You would need to find a property manager to care for the investment until you return, which will eat into the profits.

In a short term, I'd eat the risk I'm not taking that for 1 year +. 

Put the profit towards a new Primary residence and ~$50k towards a rental property.2) Rent it out and eat the cash flow loss, hoping rents increase.

With a small portfolio, it will eat away at all your cashflow.