The Midwest is probably your best bet for a number of reasons.

In my opinion, that is a riskier bet because you have to have a big pile of cash for contingencies.  

In general, any time you have profit or depreciation recapture that would cause a tax. 

It can be finalized any time before your tax deadline in April 2025.

If you kept the property, and accumulated the CF/yr, it would take you 25 years to get that same equity that's sitting, frozen in your property.Also, if you cashed out and used that same equity as a DP on different RE, at 20% DP, that equity would buy you $2M in PV, not just $700k,...and, I'd be willing to bet, you could find new RE that would have a yearly CF well over $20k/year.On top of that (remembering my initial statement above), any appreciation applied would be applied to $2M, not just $700k. 

The debt may not report to your personal credit (unless you are late on or miss payments, then all bets are off)2.

I am betting your gonna find a lot more friendly amicable persons than shut doors. 

Any time you "are trying to be nice" or "give them a break", not only do you undermine the legal foundations of your lease, you embolden the unethical tenants to move the boundary further in their favor.

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