I contacted the previous owner and he eventually came to pick up some old tools and such but left the photo albums and other personal/sentimental items.

And on Friday (2/12) the Consumer Sentiment Index will be released.

I agree with some of the sentiment here, but it's important to internalize your risk tolerance and determine if you and your husband are comfortable taking on the additional risk or if it's most beneficial to put the ~$200,000 back into your current residence and lower your monthly payments.

Nonetheless, Andrew's agreement with your sentiment (but non-agreement from the other investors) does show that multi-investors in the same property can be problematic, especially if every opinion is supposed to have equal weight.Also, it's probably because they are joint-owners that they got diddled out of a decent mortgage Interest Rate themselves. 

We still reside here and love it, but we echo @Michael Kuldiner's sentiment that it is very saturated with investors bidding for the same properties (including us!).

But again, I agree with the sentiments in the thread and appreciate the feedback.  

That sentiment is reflected in rooms that seem to have little continuity between them, apart from their bold color choices.

The house has clear sentimental value, and I know he wants to keep it in the family.I am about to close on my fist house hack near where I work, but my plan was to live in the house for only a year anyway, and move back in with my father. 

My two cents.The estate exemption in 2020 is  $11,580,000It normally jumps between $5 million and $11 million depending on the party in office and estate tax law changes, etcI do agree with your sentiment though, the amount of estate tax collected from people dieing from covid is likely not a thing to be concerned about.

Its so odd that you keep calling me a troll when others have expressed the same sentiment.