If you are stuck dealing with rental stuff, it could leave your wife with bad feelings about rental properties.

Find another deal and maybe you can close this one on your own now, maybe you still bring in a partner, but you'll be farther along in your career and education.

As an officer, it sets you up for a bad time.Plus, your business has nothing to do with your military rank.

As well as all of the risk involved with having someone place a tenant in your property for whom they benefit more from being a bad tenant than a good one.

I could potentially understand longer than a few days...and even that would depend on how bad the heat was. 

If it's a good house that will sell close to ask, no ones entertaining a low-ball despite any list or persuasion that's submitted with it.This can definitely work on a property that has sat on the market a while, is in question shape, or has other issues (bad tenants).Jacob

Otherwise, if things go bad, people have a tendency to "remember" that you "told" them all the redemption rights had expired. 

Rentometer works pretty well in Wichita and the Trulia crime map will help you to learn good from bad neighborhoods.

That is where I am at in my investing career so all the advice above has been good stuff.

In most cases, if you were changing jobs to a "New Career Field", Lenders will want you to have some time on the job.