I talked to my lender contact and, as Kerry mentioned above, it's pretty uncommon that a traditional lender would offer a HELOC product on an investment property (non-primary home). 

Towards the end of last year, one of my buddies contacted me and told me his accountant told him that he needed to buy some real estate to lower his tax bill.

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I can share my point of contact of interests you.

I grew up in North Florida so I have a lot of family, friends and business contacts in that area.  

We use furnish finders, have connected with some faculty on campus at the university nearby and have even gotten in contact with hospitals nearby to hopefully get traveling nurses soon, too.

Let's keep in contact! 

Off market deals usually have nonrefundable deposits and a clunkier process that isn't as suited for out of state people until they have good contacts in the area to evaluate the property (mostly contractors that feel comfortable evaluating projects for you).

Another solution is to simply list it as an STR and say "contact host for long term rates".

I would say message me on here, but your probably more likely to get my attention by filling out our website contact form.