If there are 8 months left, not much you can do in the short term.An investor can buy the deal, and wait until the lease expires, and send a non renew.You can always offer one of the residents an incentive to leave, such as cash so you can have a vacant unitGino

By buying it when it was being built its appraisal left with with equity earning on day one.

I hired a contractor who left his workers unsupervised, they painted the whole house but did a terrible job because the paint didn’t stick.

Evaluate the numbers and your time energy lifestyle for managing rentals out of state and how those align with your why you're investing in RE. 

And the manager is not financially aligned (and in my opinion, doesn’t do as good a job of screening tenants, etc., as I can).

But this is where we at.How many property managers did you interview before you left? 

Here are the options I thought up:Option 1: Save up money for a few more years until I have enough to buy a place all cash from a wholesalerOption 2: Aggressively pay down one of my mortgages (~$440k left at 6%) and cash out refinance in a few years to buy a place all cash from a wholesalerOption 3: Buy another house hackAll 3 of these will require me to put my value-all dreams on hold for a few years.

Unfortunately, I lost both my father and a close mentor within the past six weeks, and each left me significant real estate and some cash/investments.

So I would start by asking myself how long is left on her lease, how much I want to keep her or how happy I am to end this lease term and search for a new tenant. 

If you are in a left leaning area, do you know how to manage bureaucracy?