Don't overbid and cut into your spread, causing unnecessary stress on the exit. 

There are plenty of us on BP, just a bit spread out!

The spread between the rent and the loan amount (if 80% financed) is very small. 

If you do an online search of ‘rental arbitrage’ you can find many articles discussing the pros and cons.Essentially the company wants to pay you a long-term rental price (lower), then turn around and rent it out at short-term rates (higher), and keep the spread as their profit.There are some inherent risks in this strategy, so do your due diligence on the company and ensure any agreement is detailed and in writing.  

It helps spread out the capital required, and spread out the risk on deals.

If it’s a 25 unit building - I would not as that will spread like wildfire and every little thing people will want concessions

If they don't accept your offer so be it and do it again.You can't predict if this market is going to stabilize, crash, soft crash, hard crash, gradually rise, or become a sellers market again.Or 1031 exchange the property into a larger one in the future.Most keyboard jockies are always scared to make a move and are spreading fear. 

Interesting property.  100 yards of stone at $10-20/yard plus the cost to spread, $3k?  

I have carried back seconds when I sold, and really liked that I could have the bulk of my cash back, and get the installment treatment (i.e. get my cash back over time) which was great for spreading out the capital gains. 

There are a few STR's in my community but the community is pretty spread out so it possible they are more than 400 feet away.