Depending upon that, and your financial health I would just recommend hanging tight and adding another avenue of future income.

If the location fits your lifestyle you will find someone to help you invest either local to where you move or not. 

For example, a 40-year-old healthy male might pay around $500 per year for a 20-year term life policy with a $500,000 death benefit, compared to $4,000-$5,000 per year for a whole life policy with the same death benefit.

These are the sellers OFF market that may accept a healthy discount, but these houses come with issues that may be cheap to fix or may be very expensive to fix.

It's more important to look at your vocation and lifestyle in these situations and work backwards from there. 

Now its just not answering your phone issues.. bottom line you need sales skills  Tech skills and its a life style not a job.

I have a healthy mix of LTR's that allow we to weather a potential STR storm.

It may just be a matter of what kind of lifestyle I'd like... but wondering if there are more lending options to use that equity that I don't know about/creative financing that may make it more interesting to hang on to. 

Assuming you have the drive, capability and desire to be more of active investor/player this is what I would do if I had $10,000 to start out.I would first get really really good at underwriting deals …and then find a property that has a 25% amount of equity upside in the deal day one and also a combination of healthy cash flow that can support the property DAY 1!!!.

It may just be a matter of what kind of lifestyle I'd like... but wondering if there are more lending options to use that equity that I don't know about/creative financing that may make it more interesting to hang on to.