You might want to hold onto the property for a while, build up an income history and refinance later down the road to pull out even more equity that you are looking for right off the bat. 

Sometimes prospective purchasers are led to believe the tenants are all under NNN lease structures, and they reimburse for all expenses only to discover later that some tenants have reimbursement exclusions, limitations, and caps specified in their lease.

So, this time, I would like to begin with online wholesaling and then transition to property preservation later once I have more free time to do it. 

Record the whole interaction for evidence later if needed.

Several years later someone else had done the work and we bought it as a rental. 

I've personally invested heavily in an equity ownership stake in some ecommerce businesses that are just being created, and I'll only be paid years later once those businesses sell (either the whole business or part of the business), so I don't see why a similar investment model couldn't be followed in real estate....it just seems like such an outside the box idea so I'm wondering if anyone more experienced has seen or done something like this? 

Listing agent finally responds several days later and first he says he had COVID, then said he was on vacation and the house now has an accepted offer even though there's nothing about an accepted offer on the listing. 

Might be worth considering a new build and then renting out short term and adding a pool later if needed.

Then cash out refinancing later to purchase a second home.

If you later decide to sell, you really haven't lost that much.