Even if someone gives you the lay of the land, you would still want to go there to see for yourself, just as you would definitely have someone come check out Dorchester to see what they consider safe and not safe.

You might want to check out / request the demo for: AppFolio https://www.appfolio.com/Buildium https://www.buildium.com/Doorloop https://www.doorloop.com/ or Cash Flow Frog https://cashflowfrog.com/

The easiest and straight forward option would be, as you said, to sell the current residence, payoff the HELOC (or most of it) and then get back to saving with your jobs and the rental cashflow.

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There is plenty of street parking so it wasn't a giant issue.The conversation was pretty straightforward.

It is super straightforward and prompts me to tag all of my transactions with categories that correlate directly to Schedule E.

And it is very straightforward to file these, so I would expect it to be well within the scope of any operator sophisticated enough to pull off an owner financed deal. 

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Check out the book "Long-Distance Real Estate Investing" by David Greene.