So we shopped it out to our consistent buyers but at a strong price of $75k.

What do you drive, wear, shop at, do for free time etc etc etc?????? 

Buy them well so you can refinance out the downpayment with a Home Equity Line of Credit with lenders that will do that for you and go shopping again.

My question is if I made the HELOC go away from my cash reserves, could we then agree to seller finance the remainder and then use the cashflow from the STR to pay her plus give her a percentage to manage the property? 

I'll have to shop around and see if I can get something better. 

i am confident i can manage the relatively small amount of requests, and have heard some good things about apps and software that are a "one stop shop" for landlords that allow payment, leases, and repair requests. i have one out of state rental property with a plethora of options for handymen and contractors around. i have been paying a property management company 8% plus all of their inflated costs of repairs and fees and with insurance going up it has really opened my eyes to my margins not as healthy as i would like.do you have a certain product you have used or use or would recommend?

The reason is there is usually a resturant or other retail shop there and now you have customers you would never have that WILL spend money while they wait 20 to 30 minutes to charge.

I was shopping hard for an OOS opportunity last summer in GA and honestly grateful I went 0/15 on offers.

However much the remainder of the lease costsor2.

I used CE Shop and they are nationwide.