Heavy pitch. 

We think it will make a great short-term rental in a very office-space-heavy area.I want to offer her a higher sale price (closer to what she wants) if we can make the deal work for us.Any suggestions?

For the most part (particularly Fort Lauderdale and Miami) requires permits and inspections of your str. if you operate it without having the permit you can get heavy fines and get shut off.

However, liability issues came up about a Canadian owning US property outside of an LLC , but also the heavy taxation of an LLC for a Canadian.

If not done correctly, they will pull out since black-out drapes are rather heavy.

If it's a heavy value-add deal, cap rates and CoC might look terrible in year 1.

Unless it's a catastrophic capex related issue, the need for a capital call does not come up overnight for sponsors and neither should it for LPs. 

Hard, heavy and dusty.

It is a lot easier to deal with 12 properties that are paid for than to deal with 48 or more properties that have heavy debt on them.

If we allowed financing, we could 10 fold our business overnight.