@Nicholas Reece I took my eldest child with me to the title company to close, took a pic of him signing (scribbling) his name on a blank page.

We cannot commit a lot of free time, due to full-time jobs and a small child (no flipping/wholesaling, right?).

This is not the life I want for me or my child.  

.- His lease is for himself and his adult son (a police officer), but for the last several months his adult daughter and her 5 year old child have been living in the home, and will continue to indefinitely

Your child support must be crazy expensive.

For the most part, you are covering temporary needs (income replacement, mortgage, child care, kids college).

@Scott Szurek, Most states have a governing body that does child care assessments to make sure the property is kosher for running a day care.

@Raman Bindlish  I would take care of the railing spacings since you would be liable if a child got hurt, especially because you had notice.  

Fast forward to 2016, I'm two years away from paying it off (extra principle payments) and my oldest child graduates high school in 3 years.

After our only child got married, we of course started to talk about grandkids...my son had moved to Nashville, and we were still on the east coast - so the wife had the urge to move closer to our son - we pretty much sold it all, liquidated while the market was still strong and moved again.