As you describe it, with a 20 year maturity and a stated index and margin, it is in fact a 5/5 ARM, and not a balloon.

I am leaning towards selling now and renting then eventually reinvesting some of the money in another house in Oregon or Washington and the rest in index funds, but I wanted to get some other people's opinions.

That said I do own some stocks/index funds.Here is a great list of questions to ask a potential accountant: http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/51/topics/70447-questions-to-ask-a-cpa Also check out the NAEA.org page in your search.

That district, according to the Cook Partisan Voting Index, is only scoring a D+3, so Joaquin Castro could be in trouble.Although Philadelphia is a Democratic stronghold, there are three suburbs nearby where GOP incumbents may be replaced by Democratic opponents: the Sixth and Eighth, which are both R+1, and the Seventh which is a tossup.Oklahoma’s Second District is one of the five Promise Zones, and it includes the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.

Find the grantor grantee index and tax rolls.

Take the address of the property down to the registry of deeds and look up who the buyer is in the Grantor/Grantee index.

Most importantly, construction to get the site ranked highest in all the search engines.Tip: Avoid Adobe Flash, videos, and large index files (home page).

One that you can generate 100's of target pages that get indexed in all SE.

Not sure what year they used as their =100 baseline, but the takeaway for me is the country to country comparison.Here Canadian Teranet data (similar to the US Case-Shiller index using matched-pair sales of single family homes) shows house prices have risen at a much faster rate than Canadian per-capita GDP, per-capita income, rents, or inflation.

It says that the Case/Shiller housing price index is finally showing the first monthly increase in house price data, after 7 months of decline.