I am currently serving in the United States Air Force, so as a military member, I will be moving around during my career. 

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Mid thirties couple earning very well (more than 8X rent) with a small pet.

If you are trying to come up with a way to finagle the occupancy requirements while using an amazing loan (that you earned based on your service) like a VA, I would say you are starting off on the wrong foot.

This account is also a savings account so I’m earning interest on it.

Do you want to earn x thousand a month?

Can you invest that money that would be used to pay it off in places that earn more than 7%? 

Personally, I'm not interested in owning anything that doesn't cash flow at least $500 per month because there's just too many things that can go wrong in REI and I want the properties to earn their keep both in appreciation and in cash flow.

This brings me to now, I've taken this approach and have used my own money in lending, but am also bringing in friends and family to take part in these transactions so they can earn way better returns than with CD's.

If so, I'd rather just sell it and not deal with the headache of landlording a property like that and just earn some cash.