Stick to your numbers and try to keep from getting emotional about this property.

. :-) I love the place, my family is still out there, so there is an emotional attachment, and I know I'll be out there to visit and for work.

Applicants are not people they are only a collection of facts and information.I suggest you only use M2M leases to maintain control of the property and keep in mind tenants are like a new puppy, if you do not train them you can never expect them to be good tenants.You are operating a business where no good deed goes unpunished and emotions are a landlords greatest disability. 

If you let emotion play a roll you will regret it over and over.  

Preemptively....getting many new credit cards only causes slight, TEMPORARY credit hits.  

What you are doing right now, if you make a decision too fast, is making an emotional one.  

One think I think it is important to you is to avoid all of the Internet crooks that want to sell you something with a emotional sales pitch on something you do not need.  

You should ask to do a temporary subject to the existing financing - let seller know it will be a short period of time - always put your request in writing the terms you want - even if they say  NO verbally.

Only pay attention to people that have done what they are talking about.Be aware that since there is a bunch of money in real estate that there are crooks trying to get your money through emotional sales.

We try to take the emotion out and just move forward with a better situation as quickly as possible.