You'd be stuck with a no-notice vacancy and no way to collect on the debt because the tenant would be locked up or shipped back home.

In hind sight you should have inspected each unit prior to re-leasing to the existing tenants, obviously that ship has sailed.

The third way to do this as an unlicensed individual is to have your buyer in place in advance, ship for their criteria, have a new entity formed naming you and your buyer as owners and make the offer in that entity name, then at the closing table, you simply sell your shares in the company.

Perhaps he is better suited for passive investing where someone else drives the ship.

The tenant says she has $1050 of $1075, due to the cruise ship holding funds.

Some build the walls, roof trusses and other major components inside, then ship them to the job site for assembly.

I find B ham tops out about 1k in rents .. folks that can afford more I think are jumping back into the buying pool.. there are some good articles coming out about Millennial's understanding their purchasing power and starting to jump into home owner ship.. we track this as builders here in Oregon since it could be very pronounced what they could add to the market.

Also keep shipping costs in mind. 

I spend time online shopping at Walmart.com, Kohls, Wayfair and Amazon, checking prices and Walmart usually has the best deals on beds, amazon on mattresses that can be shipped directly to the property.

You might be able to get a deal there, and you won't have to pay shipping, which can be painful with large orders (signs are heavy in bulk.)