I would recommend house hacking unless you had plans to move out of state.

I lend in 45 states and meet almost none of my clients since covid.

Even oil magnate John D.

Quote from @Kim Huynh: Just was checking on the CT state lease on BP and saw that it hasn't been updated since 2019 version. 

I own 22 doors in Cumberland, how are things going with your multifamily? 

In the 4 states I hold/held broker licenses, all required this knowledge (in BASIC form) for licensure, so the required educational courses should provide a decent foundation.  

But ya have to make some educated prognostications in life.Add this to the information your processing - What your talking about doing is eliminating around $4000 or interest expense (which is deductible anyway so really could be a real impact of eliminating $2800 or so) of debt in exchange for paying over $10K in capital gains tax (don't forget possible state gains tax as well).  

We have converted oil boilers  to gas boilers to reduce costs. 

This is really going to depend on the state you are looking to do business in.

If you aren't in the state to change the locks, who's monitoring the home?