Last year I was in your shoes, listening to podcast after podcast, reading books, devouring articles, how-to's, and talking to realtors.The story going around in my head was--is this industry, career, and life just for the ultra-outgoing, super-confident movers and shakers?

The pressure of wanting to close should be enough to get her to hire movers if she truly wants to sell.

https://www.uhaul.com/Articles/About/17784/Top-Us-Destination-Cities-IN-2018-Houston-Greets-Most-Movers-Again/Best of luck and Aloha.

I live in them for a couple of years, then move, renting them out.

We know movers and we can set that up for you. 

That whole area has grown, even Aberdeen has grown quite a bit.

What happens if you have the bank make a cashier's check out to the tenant directly, and then the movers accidentally break something on the day of move-out?? 

A variation on house hacking: Buy a house as an owner occupant in a neighborhood you want to live in, live in it for 12 months as required by the mortgage, then buy another house and move, renting out the prior one.

Move real estate off their books on onto someone elses.Lets face facts, do you really think every single loan that was packaged with other loans, sold, resold, repackeged and sold and repackaged again and again is now in the hands of the bank that actually owns it?

If your movers can't get the tenant's stuff out with the dog in the way the sheriff would likely force the tenant to remove the dog, or maybe have animal control come out to take it.