Better off having an insurance policy built in, just in case.

What if you decide at some point in the future that you want to hire out the PM role...you should factor in those costs now, just in case.I could be wrong, but it looks to me like you're ignoring a lot of costs associated with this property, and will be in for a big surprise when you start actually writing checks.

Peter Are you an agent just in the USA or does your agency cover international sales.

Your best bet if you are not using a realtor is to try to sell creatively by owner - contract for deed, lease purchase, then you might get more buyers who are not just in the conventional arena.

Right now as I'm sure you knowthere is a huge buyers/investorsmarket going on, not just in thiscountry but globally actually!

Thanks Justin,You can use your IRA to do a one time rollover to your HSA.

I put it in inactive status just in case (but went into the big pharma world instead).

Just in my situation it would nearly be like putting the cart before the horse.

I just had a freakish weekend showing a house--the first applicant was a very attractive woman who worked for a cosmetic Surgery clinic -- she had obviously taken advantage of the employee discount--she had a very nice look and way about her- & her children were nice too--she was evasive about her credit -she said it wasn't "too good"----upon getting the screening back,the records showed she had undisclosed bankruptcy, recent eviction--she said that was her sister's eviction-- it was" just in her name", the LL name she gave me was not the property owner listed on the county records--"she said that was because of a divorce and he was hiding from his wife", the child support financial records to support her income I asked her to provide "couldn't be faxed because something was wrong with the fax machine at the clinic", and she had 30 recent collections as well as 4 new court judgements-- these were" just loans and things, so how does that affect me renting your house?"

I haven't been giving all my money to the bank though; I've been saving it where I can access it, just in case something like job loss reared it's ugly head.