Also, it's hard work, it's a lot of stress, and if you're a tortoise buy/holder like myself, nothing is instant and it's a waiting game.   

Based on what you describe, I think you can easily rent out that unit on Air Bnb very easily to recover her rent plus more if priced right in the beginning and turn on the Instant Booking feature.  

They want instant gratification and instant riches.

But offering them payments for 3 to 5 years and having that full payday lingering out there is more palitable.As for the lump payments...

People instantly associate mountains with snow, but that’s not the case when it comes to great smoky.

The place was rented above estimate instantly.

And remember this is the long game, it isn't an instant game.

I was very pleased when I ran this by our team in December that it was an instant for sure we would love to..

I had instant equity of about 600k.

If you find a r/e deal that you can "Add value" you can turn a 3cap to a 7 cap aka instant equity.