For short term or long term? 

It borders my property on two sides, and virtually anything short of it staying the way it is (wooded) is going to severely derail my quality of life - and I'd rather not have to move. 

Aside from the fact that the VA may not fund given your short term assignment there are significant penalties for what you *might* be doing.    

(Long term this is a new buy and hold rental for me so not looking to flip it or short term type things)  The rental numbers work great and have been in this market for awhile. 

Some other short-ish stints in other places as well...

Ive had luck taking deals like this and turning them into more of a short term entire seller hold back  with as little as 5-10% down, and just making the note balloon in a few years.

I would suggest keeping it as a rental and do a cash out refinance if you have a short term loan on the property.  

It stayed on the market for a while and then went to short sale and then went off market, I thought someone had bought it.

Awesome @Roy Wise, the group is fairly new but we have added a bunch of members in a short time.

I think everyone's situation is different, and each person's journey in discovering the kind of investor they want to be can be discovered by trial & error, or education through partnering with someone or learning through the books, podcasts or forums available to you.