Use less of that and either get the seller to buy down your interest rate or you can do it and have a comfortable mortgage payment and still plenty left for your emergency fund.

They let my on-site manager know they were going to "take a trip for a birthday party" and have not returned. 

For holes in the wall (one had a large round cut out), was that the tenant's doing? 

Do you take out a second mortgage on an Airbnb that you never wish to sell that’s almost paid off  or do you take out 100 grand against your primary residence.  

You would do a bank refi around the time your 5yr balloon is due.

Speaking of Islands, do you have any contacts on Dauphin Island below Mobile? 

Do you have any of these that can justify the price so prospective tenants can see that the net cost is equal? 

I would say do a house hack.

If Oklahoma has a law called "Predatory Real Estate Wholesaler Prohibition Act", don't you think that might just be a state to avoid for a new wholesaler who doesn't know much of what they are doing yet?

You can do the process under an LLC and sell the LLC to a non-profit.