My other options would be to Airbnb it (property close to Morgan State, JHH, and more) or rent it out to a regular or student tenant.

A bridge loan might be your best option here.

I would like a granite style, but not sure about the other stone options in terms of what would be best. 

You want to go to meetups, meet people, and fall into a mentor by adding deal options, sweat equity, or some other skillset to help them.

An option could be doing some research to ball park what these estimates would come in at and remove that amount from your offer. 

The options are either the tenant pays for the damage of any of their household occupants, human or animal, or they get evicted.

I just like to know when there is a pet in the place, so the cleaners do a little extra cleaning afterwards for any future guest with possible pet allergies. his response"I really don’t recall a block even being available to even list a pet, as an ABB host I’m pretty attune to those details."

If in your position, I woulf sit down with a GOOD loan officer and talk options that align with my goals and see how we can make it happen.

If you look up REI meetups in Meetup/EventBrite, you'll find loads of options. 

We also use their revenue manager option so we have a specialist who looks at our prices daily - I recommend it for sure.