They were broken into and no longer feel safe in the home.

It's not a scalable strategy and you need that cashflow to be safe even if you don't need it for living.

Leverage to the neck or play it extremely safe and pay your property off. 

Guthrie now lives in a rental a few blocks away.It’s in a safe neighborhood where private security guards patrol at night.

Please make sure you are safe (as can be - alert and aware) and not taking away energy to maintain your safety!

An opportunity to live in Hawaii presented itself and I decided to make a go of it instead of playing it safe and comfortable, if one can call where I was safe and comfortable. 

Nothing stops you from the parties agreeing to it (as long as you can safely remove the said items).  

I mentioned all of this because sometimes people unaware of all this, buys insurance in his own name as you would normally do, go to a insurance agent that doesn't ask too many questions, send a policy to the bank with the wrong primary insured, hoping snoozing employees would make them safe.

If they are building new townhomes across the street you are probably ok, but better to be safe and do all your due diligence. 

Thanks, I actually saw the job loss as a blessing, because it did allow me to grow and persevere through that tough times and to switch careers into IT and that no job is safe.