VA backed loans are meant to help military/veterans get into a home to live in.

If they want to stand for re-election that's fine, but the owners would be stupid to vote for them.

Yes, I would think that bringing that many units to a pm company would allow for more negotiation.I may not have been clear before - I meant that the pm agreement between owner and pm states that if the owner wants to terminate the pm contract, the owner owes the pm whatever (or something close to it) the pm would've received had the contract continued.Is that standard?

If this meant changing jobs so be it.

You can be compassionate for sure, but the land lord/tenant relationship is ultimately meant to be temporary.

The 203K could be an option but its not meant for flipping and you could burn your lender if you have the loan for less than 6 months. 

Again recapture might be, or it might not be taxed (1250 or otherwise), see discussion about investor step up election in the article or the regs i.e., to avoid recognition of any recapture amounts.

Better to just go through with it and be done with it, than risk some lien popping up behind the 2nd down the line, that would have been wiped out if the foreclosure would have gone through.My post was meant to illustrate that the door would be open to doing so.

We had previously agreed on a no-travel ban for me the 4 weeks prior to the date, which meant 6 days after learning of the lease end, I'd be spending the weekend in MN, with a new tenant selected.

How is your example of deferred income not accrual basis of accounting My bad - I meant to say that the Prepaid rent doesn't touch the Balance Sheet and will only show on the P&L, not the other way around.