Things to consider are self management, travel distance, property taxes, insurance, resource availability. 

Make sure to charge fees, but calculate them accurately and adhere to your state regulations.

Lenders will need to offset this risk with fees/interest rates so they recoup losses when those riskier borrowers default. while / because lenders can’t use medical costs to judge the credit worthiness of a borrower well, all loan costs will have to go up, to spread the risk peanut butter.

Then when you add in realtor fees, etc, if we sold I estimate it to be around a $35k-$50k loss.

They will pay you a fee for finding them.

From a tax strategy stand point, is it best I charge myself commission or not?  

My thinking- many ppl escape Florida now bc of taxes and insurance cost.

I ended up chatting with a few property managers and paid a flat $700 fee for them to make the problem go away.

All expenses for that rental unit are now write offs when you file your taxes.

Also look at property tax rates, how often properties are re-assessed and if there's a cap on property tax increases.