@Mary Jay, middle of nowhere will destroy you.  

A high purchase price can destroy an entire deal if rents fall.

But i guess the cost to find new ones would be less if the pets destroy the house.

If you have done your homework and the property is sound, there should be nothing materially wrong such that a reasonable insurance policy would not cover.If you continue to do your homework and screen your tenants properly, you should have a low risk of them destroying the property that an insurance policy would not cover. 

Get HELOC, use for repairs, but then will have interest only adding on to the already high payment of $1050OrPut repairs on the credit cards, min payment could be similar to a HELOC, and then refinance after repairs into possibly a 30year loan, pay off the credit cards before the high utilization’s destroys my credit score, rent it out for possible cash flow of $3-500, wait the 6-12 month seasoning period and then get the HELOC?

It will destroy everything around the toilet and under it for at least a thousand dollars.

I have heard the horror stories about Section 8 tenants destroying property, and the flipside that the vouchers are difficult to get and a recipient would lose their voucher for an eviction, so they take care of the house.

You never know what could happen that could destroy the property or even an unauthorized person trespassing and getting injured could still leave you liable.  

They are only likely to destroy the work you do.

I have heard nightmare stories from friends of taking 6 months or longer to evict bad tenants while they utterly and completely destroyed the property.