DBIt depends on your goals, but generally, a long-term rental should ideally provide a solid return on investment beyond just breaking even.

Depending on your risk tolerance and investment goals, exploring short-term Treasury Bonds, high-yield savings accounts, or diversified alternative assets like private lending or REITs could also be worth considering.

And what happens after the 5, 7 or 10 years depends on the lender but typically it would be a balloon payment.

You could make this work ST, MT or LT, depending on how you approach it - the key with unique grounds is owner-provided upkeep and service built into the listing and what permits allow. 

Depending on the quality of the lead, how much work you’ve done with them, the exact source, the property in question, etc, they may range from worthless to worth a small referral fee.  

We have several different people lined up to clean ours depending on time of day and how much lead time we have.

Since FHA is not an option, i would advise that your seller needs to work on their credit score and savings to qualify for a conventional loan.

Depending on ARV, you might be able to finance 100% of the construction so long as you are not over 65-70% of the ARV.

And it could take even longer than 6-12 months to find a replacement depending on the area.The other things to look at carefully are major Capex or maintenance expenses - you didn't mention whether this was a NNN lease.

The administration will help some investors and hurt others depending on the circumstances.