My intention is to build my business with systems in place, so that I can hand over essential duties to future employees. 

Try out your airbnb idea with your current unit before going and buying a SFH for that purpose to see if you like the business and to help set up the systems you will need while running it remotely from camp.

This way your business and tax strategies are tailor-made to your needs/wants versus what the legislature decided.

Home is in good condtion with newer systems and rents within hours. 

Just to help verify this amount, I set up a separate account in my bookkeeping system to hold the additional charges.  

Once you pick a state / city you can start diving into towns and suburbs to see where the better school systems are and better places to live or where you feel a solid investment can be made. 

@Joshua A Fuhriman My friend has his own team in India that works as his virtual assistants and they do as they are instructed to (as part of his system), to do backend work but my friend is still face and sound of his platform in Baltimore.

As @Mark Fries states, there are deals out there, but you have to have a system to get the homes.

I can’t see you prevailing on This property though.....if you want to spend the time money to “prove a point” or “change the system”, carry on.A similar dismay on my part.....I just went to bid opening where a state agency accepted a bid that was turned in late on a $12M project, caused by confusion on the bidders part.  

Trying to do my due diligence, i spoke with the director today and he told me I needed $3500 for enrollment in there system.