Multiple offers.

Also, most decent STR property managers will be happy to offer projections for properties, or even realtors who do a lot of STR business as well. 

If the PM wants to waste their resource defending evicting a tenant that paid on time for not paying, I am fine with that.  

Create & define your Buy Box and then find properties that fit.Make offers that make your numbers work, not the asking price.

I know at one time VHDA was offering 40 year financing on mixed use projects.

A major Coast Guard base is being stood up in N chs on the river, the port facility is booming and expanding rapidly, and N Chs offers some of the only reasonably priced developable RE with short commuting distance of the peninsula, Mount P, and the beaches.

Make a lower offer that reflects more than the additional cost of that problem.

I imagine there are a lot of 3/2 that probably sleep 8-10 and if you can offer a slightly larger bed count and a cool game room/theme room you can differentiate yourself a bit from your competition and get some extra revenue through slightly higher rate (extra person fees, etc) as well as an overall higher occupancy. 

Just yesterday I had the same conversation with Jessica LaRusso at Seek Capital and they also offered me lines of credit through un-secured credit cards, offering 0% interest for 12-18 months. 

Once I plan to offer the unit, I offer it contingent on successful background check: In addition to the basic applicant approved transunion smart move through buildium which I pay for, when smart move stopped providing criminal background data, I  added a $49 tenant paid service through rentprep for nationwide criminal and eviction, bank account deposit verification, and employment verification.