It rents for $1950 and is more of an appreciation play because I like the area. 

Not willing to do owner financing.You can use any title co you'd like, my title company will represent my side- so dont bother with funny business.

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like that county provides that information for free online, BUT they do upload it to a private company that will sell you access to it online for a fee:https://www.courthouseonline.com/

Like everything else with Real Estate just taking it on seems to always be the best way to learn.

We're there a lot, but we chose to be, as we like the guys and keeping the place up nice.

I'm familiar with how a hard money loan is structured, but structuring a deal from a private lender seems like the wild west.

I'm a guy that does not like spread sheets.

In my area you can buy buildable land for 20k/acre, so stuff that goes into a conservancy easement is probably more like $3k per acre.

Unless there is an obvious error, you will likely be fighting an uphill battle.  

Your conventional options will likely be better and keeping in your personal name is much easier to manage...just my 0.02