Were I in your shoes with an alternative housing option, outstanding debts, and no crystal ball telling me the mkt will continue to appreciate, I'd sell it. 

Not exactly in your desired network area, but I would be more than happy to discuss what they teach us if you want some info to get the ball rolling.

But, I generally just use 1% of purchase price to get the ball rolling. 

House hacking is a great strategy to get the ball rolling.

My goal over these next few weeks is to outline a flowchart showing all necessary steps to take to get this ball rolling in the right direction as we hope to have this project completely underway by the start of the new year. 

The quote that I got feels ball park right (~$4k), but given I'm new to the RE stuff would love to shop around to see what competitive bids I can get. 

When the temperature came down, the fan turned off!

I need to have chosen and ordered furniture /washer dryer before even setting foot in the home after closing day to get the ball rolling on photos for listing the home.

@Payton Ball Gotcha.

Something about oil that deteriorates with time, sun, rain, temperature changes, etc...