If possible, I plan on selling my residence first and living in the new home during the remodel, which I plan will take 2 months.How would this transaction work and how much would it cost to use an EAT?

Don’t let a rental eat your seed corn:Jimmy Napier was one of my teachers.

And if I do this deal, it will probably be the last one I do for a while as it will eat up a lot of the cash I have left.

It would seem to me that the only legal way to do it would be charge them the $20 fee, pay the smart move charge and then eat the $5-15 additional cost.

Termites will have to go back into the earth every 24 hours and they eat very slowly.

There is only one way to eat an elephant - one bite at a time.

I got the seller who was an older gentleman that called me to sell his house as a Realtor (I'm a broker and property manager by day) to agree to sell me the house subject to his existing mortgage once we realized that he had little equity and realtor fees and time on market might eat up most of his equity and he just wanted to move out of state where his daughter lived.  

Telling people they need to eat less, exercise, and gradually reduce the leverage in their real estate portfolio isn't very popular, but it is good for your overall health long term.  

Opportunity value of the equity alone is eating over $2000/month of the income before any other expense deductions.Unless you are getting in the range of $6000/month rental income this is not a good investment.

It's a large kitchen, so depending on the amount of work, it could end up eating your budget.