I had to pause when you said you're 18 and realize I'm actually double your age.

The thing that gives me pause is the process of removing three unknown tenants from the property.

Seems like I get a lot of pause from transaction participants when I mention Sellers Contributions. 

Penalties and loss of rent / discounted by square footage loss of use by tenant,, does not make it a win for working in a occupied unit.This alone would give me pause to consider letting tenant stay.. 

As they say Stuff Happens.In your case you have come up with a good plan to pause, learn the next lesson and proceed to the next step after more lessons learned.   

Anything that will make an owner pause and not just dump the card in the trash could be worth while.

I have been happier with Prosper (managed via LendingRobot), but have paused adding anymore money to P2P (my total original investment across both platforms was $12,000).

He first response was, after a 2 minute or so pause, was if he got paid cash he'd "have to to something with that money or have Uncle Sam take a big bite of it.

Federal legislation is paused (not being enforced by its)  for the $600 threshold. some states have separate legislation from a few years ago where this is still happening though. 

I suppose it could really be many years before we start seeing spillover from Austin into the Killeen/Temple areas.It may be a good time to take a pause.