I see the point you are trying to make on making the investment in the land value, but it seems more risky than renting a home you can instant cash flow. sale that home for a little more than what you paid for it in 10-15yrs.

A lot of them give you instant access on their mobile app to if they are owner occupied or not and what the mailing address is.

Also one thing to keep in mind on the PM side bigger PMs have no way to do instant communications its just too busy in their day to day.. so as long as you can log on to your portal and watch things get done that's normal in the business. 

If an investor put a $1,500,000 note on the home with no money out of pocket, there would be approximately $400,000 instant equity and the note would be serviced by the leaseback.Any other creative financing ideas?

That is correct, I've done many of these personally.If you have:- #1 debt or a lien on the property currently you can do a regular rate/term refinance instantly or wait till 6 months to cash out based on fair market value or FMV- #2 if you bought the property cash then you can refinance up to 70% of FMV or your total acquisition cost that you paid for the property whichever is less (often times if you got a good deal your total acquisition is less than 70% of FMV). 

So her $3,000 turns into $7,000 instantly simply because her employer gives it to her.

Like check cashing for example, with my USAA app (personal account) I can deposit checks very easily with my phone and the funds are available instantly...that's the level of service I need.

We've had a great experience using just Airbnb - their commission is low, they handle all of the credit card transactions (unlike booking.com), you aren't required to have instant book, and travelers who use Airbnb aren't usually expecting 'hotel quality'. 

In the case of empty properties, we can notify the property manager or instantly dispatch the fire department.Insurance companies will usually offer a discount for having professionally monitored systems.

I am using this approach and just put a property under contract in UC using FHA, offering slightly more than asking, that has over 30% instant equity baked into the deal.