I've been watching  BiggerPockets' YouTube videos and listening to the podcasts for a long time ! 

It needs some things and I'm actually enjoying some of the DIY parts, though long term I intend to get reconnected to the trades and hire all work out.  

. 😀 Hope your enjoying your trip Rose.

However, what if your tenant starts to watch child pornography?

I have been researching and watching how to go about this.

That gets me to my catch 22.My wife and I are hoping to get into VRBO world so we can enjoy and make more cash flow than we are currently making, but I'm wondering if we should put that off 18 months, rent out the property again and then reconvene at a better time or suck it up, lose a few thousand off the asking price and get moving on our goals...Financials - We owe 143,000 on the house (refinanced to conventional from FHA right after the seasoning period), it rents for $1850, mortgage, taxes insurance, HOA is $956, we just sunk $11,000 into carpet, paint, landscaping, replaced a vanity to get it ready to sell and I fear renting we might have to redo a couple of those things. 

Given, inspection and government watching over your shoulder may be a slight deterrent.

I enjoy personal finance and retirement investing/planning and have thought about getting into buy and hold real estate for a while.

It is not as simple as you might thing and if you have nothing in writing, you might get really hard time with that.Personally, I think most of those issues for new investors  comes from watching HGTV shows.

I've enjoyed the ride, taking my tax free gains and bailing ;) rent prices are still too low to even consider leaving my primary as a rental.