Alternatively, start rehabbing immediately using OPM(other people's money).

Alternatively make sure the deal at least works as a long term rental.

On your primary residence you can do 5% down, but on a vacation home you will need to do 10% or an alternative loan type (which almost certainly will not lower the down payment requirement).  

All alternatives welcome, I'm not beholden to my initial strategy.

If you was like me when you started I had to focus on hustling hard and looking for alternative financing strategies.

Yes I will be open to self-manage as an alternative option. 

A Taxpayer may identify as many as 3 alternate properties of any value.

Any other alternatives?

This is just looking at alternative funding strategies after those have been completed, which should be in the coming month. 

If I was buying a house to live in or buying an investment property from a real estate agent, I would simply apply for a mortgage, but is there an alternative for these off-market offers that I'm not looking at?