Whatever time you spend learning the pros and cons, and getting professional advice before you make your offer to buy them will be money and time well spent.Good luck on your journey!

Probably made more money on the sale of the land and the house than they ever did farming, sad as that is. 

Which would leave me money to spare for other renovations.

You are basically saying that you would like to transfer the long-term maintenance and upkeep issues that are coming soon to a new owner.

I'll do it in about 6 months once I have a foothold in NC.Yeah, I learned the hardway by spending money unnecessarily on this kind of stuff lol 

HARD MONEY LENDER FINANCING AS AN MLO How did you add value to the deal?

Affiliate MarketingAn experienced consultant can help determine a budget, which type or types of marketing to spent it on, your target customer, how much time per day you spent on online marketing, and coordinate a website, blog, forum participation, paid advertising, generic advertising, and measure the success of each campaign.For those of us who started 15 years ago, and tried each new market type as it unfolded, we have a pretty good idea of where to spend our money and time.

I also have a primary residence with nearly a JUMBO loan at a high interest rate and I own a vacation place in cash (small trailer not worth much money but i also own the land) in a different state that I pay RE taxes on. 

I'm not getting a lot of traction with leads, and am bleeding money each month. 

This is one reason that people have been saying cap rates would be going up because why would you buy RE at a 5 cap (5%) when you can take that money, in todays interest rate environment, and invest it in safe investments that take zero of your time and don't have unseen expenses, and get 5% or better?