Together, we negotiated favorable terms with the seller, ensuring a beneficial deal.

If I were to do so, I'd definitely look for small multi-family as opposed to SFRs, unless you're wanting to create a short-term rental(STR). 

In terms of your financing question, the majority of loans we do are in that $1m to $5m range, so that's not an issue at all (fake numbers wasting everyone's time would of course be an issue, but let's stipulate that it's solved).

But I did'nt care about how long it would take bc I was living the house.

All of my tenants are long term tenants and my property is managed by a property management company.

Together, we negotiated favorable terms with the seller, ensuring a beneficial deal.

I personally love Columbus in terms of doing value add.

The ultimate goal would be to rent it out for short term stays or possibly as an event venue (in addition to being on farmland, it's surrounded by pine forest and waterfront).

Quote from @Matthew (Mateo) McDaniel: A hard money lender is typically used for short-term loans.

Together, we negotiated favorable terms with the seller, ensuring a beneficial deal.