Pictures were nice.

They have only seen pictures 

I was surprised at first, then I did some research, and found many success stories.Yes, I bought it from Hawaii, but the Ebay listing had a lot of pictures of the property, so I had an idea what I was buying.The house does exist, the deed is already recorded under my name.

Take a picture of the front of the house as the ad photo, and in the text above write something like: "ARE YOU MY OWNER?

And that usually includes putting the house on craigs list.. with pictures ... walking potential buyers through it etc.. exactly what an agent does..

I can tell the property isn't ready, or clean from your pictures.

What I was trying to point out is the picture your showing potential buyers.

I don't necessarily "need" the cash that's tied up in it but that is a big chunk of money I could potentially invest elsewhere (but without a known rate of return like I'd get on this place).The property is 2 hours from where I live so I need to find a property manager.Interested in any and all perspectives on this and happy to answer additional questions if they help paint the picture.

I would ask them for pictures of the property and then go look at the property and then run the numbers/comps myself.  

I don't feel the 1% interest is significant in the over all picture, especially with all the hoops you need to jump through to get the loan.