If you advertise at $1800 and get no action for two weeks, then consider dropping the price.Always lower your price, not your standards.

@Wei Zhao,Consider house hacking with roommates in a SFH if you can.

A six-month supply is typically considered a balanced market.

@Taylor Robertson, you may also consider if you'll need any assistance from an agent on this deal.

If you are willing to sacrifice part of your life style, you can always consider living one room/unit of the house and rent out the other vacant unit out to lower your monthly mortgage payments!

I will consider your suggestion's particularly the investigating of the local real estate market here (or as a minimum use it as a guide for if/when i return to the states as so to develop my research and planning skills).Appreciate your feedback.  

Nonetheless, with your current mortgage rate and solid equity position, it’s definitely worth considering getting a good, respectable tenant in there and watching your equity grow.

A few things to consider if you want to go out of your market:1) What are your investing goals and the metrics you are measuring by?

Meeting that 2 in 5 of the last requirement allows a single owner to shield $250k of appreciation and a married couple to shield $500k.Unless you predict a lot of income from the MTR or you feel that there is a lot of appreciation incoming over the next three years (minus time get the property sold), you may want to consider collecting your $100k (passing GO) and redeploying that money to whatever you feel is its best use. 

After nearly 3 years of operating history, I'm concerned that the properties are not performing well enough to warrant continuation of the venture, and I'm considering selling.