Look up ideal existing performing properties, your "hero's" as it were, find out who own's it, and reach out to them. 

If you have a lot of equity and little cash flow, you should consider accessing that equity to use elsewhere.Another factor to consider is your interest rate on the debt.

The rise in home equity over the years can be credited to two key factors:1.

I attached some visuals to give an ideal of the type of area. 

Think about what everyone else is doing.For reasons that I can’t quite grasp, someone decided that people who want to, need to, or have to sell their houses are the ideal audience to target.

Ideally, you'll go low LTV--40% on excellent locations and & great prices scaling down to 20% LTV to negate a worse bid & location.

Even comparing Provo to NC in terms of flight duration and cost even though both have direct flights would be a huge factor for me.

We had an accounting system once that necessitated doing this - not ideal, but it keeps the assets and liabilities straight and AP is just an accrual until you pay the bill.

Any help is much appreciated - obviously a short term rental would be ideal, but it looks like thats out the question for now. 

Ideally would be purchasing some land out there & using our building background to do something unique.