I work offshore which makes managing myself very difficult. 

I understand why you did it, but from an investment standpoint, it doesn't make any sense.I don't know your market, but gambling that the property value will increase faster than what you bleed every month is highly speculative and very dangerous unless you have a LOT of disposable income that you don't mind disposing of if your gamble doesn't pay off.Check your lease, can you break it if the property is sold?  

So what is your risk tolerance and what are the consequences of taking the gamble down the road?

@Ben Leybovich Brandon seems happy focusing on his Hoquiam Tsunami Bullseye Target area, which is past due for what may be the largest offshore earthquake in recorded US history from the Cascadia fault that runs from Northern California to Vancouver, BC.

The gamble there is that the judge will tell me that they pre-paid it, therefore I'm responsible.

It's a gamble, but all signs point to this being an expanding market in the coming years.

We have huge oil discoveries offshore, very large construction projects, and housing prices are on the up and up.

Only being prepared for the best possible outcome is not investing its gambling. 

These builders are gambling that they can find someone to believe that their retail price is actually a wholesale price, but that is no reason to recommend that Matthew Brill become a gambler too.Oh, I just saw the above post from Jay.

Marketwatch.com put out a good article on the increase in manufacturing jobs and some supporting reasoning why "Made In America" is coming back (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-flips-the-script-on-jobs-reshoring-finally-outpaced-offshoring-in-2014-2015-05-01).