How is it possible to outweigh the challenges that come with the types of tenants who live in war zones?

During an eviction or whatever.They might end up knowing more about your personal life than you'd like, just by observing what's going on at your house ("Looks like LL is on vacay...")My personal opinion is the pros outweigh the cons and close rentals are a great convenience.

You have to weigh it and see if the extra costs incurred by refinancing outweigh having the cash in hand. 

I guess the question is, assuming you as the seller have all your stuff together, what other benefits does having a realtor represent you as a seller bring, and do they outweigh the commission savings of the flat fee listing service?

That may come in time but for now I'd just get your toes in the water if you determine the positives outweigh the negatives for you.

The cons heavily out weigh the pros.

BUT,  It's just a matter as to whether the costs outweigh the benefits.

That far outweighs "the bad" in my opinion.  

@Yonah Weiss honestly a cost seg would have to be pretty inexpensive for it to be worth it on a $500k property (with even less than that amount depreciable basis due to the land) since you're trading permanent dollars for what amounts to a timing difference...and in my experience cost segs are not cheap...I mean the analysis is largely driven by whether the rate of return you earn on your cash tax savings (driven of course by your individual marginal tax rate) due to accelerated depreciation will outweigh the cash outlay for the cost of the cost seg itself...I'm just not seeing the math working out on a $500k property even with bonus unless again the cost seg is super affordable...and in my experience "affordable cost seg" is an oxymoron.  

I was only trying to point out the repercussions, which far outweigh any house buying opportunity.