@Bill Jackson, no one can honestly answer your question about what is best without knowing your financial circumstances and goals better.

If that's the case then it would depend on the tenant and circumstances.

Through circumstances I'm not allowed to discuss, in late 2016, he was taken away from the house to a different city and placed in a treatment facility for 18 months.

Does anybody have any ideas of how to acquire the property with these circumstances?

@Thomas CorleyThe difficult depends on the circumstances and the city. 

@Mark Lewis, I wholeheartedly agree with @Paul De Luca - turning over a property is EXPENSIVE so I try to avoid unless there are majo ongoing late pay issues, damages or other extenuating circumstances. 

All of the things they did could be useful tools, in the right circumstances, but they tended to get greedy, over-extended, and somehow the whole house of cards always depended on the market going up-and-up forever.  

Hey @Eric Brantley, in most circumstances you are only allowed to have one FHA Loan at a time, so you will either need to refinance your current FHA into a conventional mortgage structure or look at exceptions.

Expect the heat/AC never to be turned on except in extraordinary circumstances.   

So I think the question is phrased wrong, depending on your circumstance.