That way you get the cash as if you sold, but you maintain control of the house, and can continue to benefit from rental income.  

You should keep the rules and do your best to maintain a strictly business relationship.

They are plugged in at all times to maintain charge, and automatically switch to battery power when the power goes out.

I'm stoked you're still asking questions even with 4.5 years of experience.

We also maintain good communications with other landlords in the same neighbourhood and will send our overflow to them  [It builds good relations and we have first option on a couple of properties as a result].

This allowed us to only have to borrow 80% from our primary lender to maintain the 80/20 LTV ratio and it also provided us with some add'l cash to use for the repairs we had planned.

Check your metrics, if they replied from a mobile device, then you can assume maintaining a digital relationship will be effective.

The city and county maintain a website with all property info.

- what are your other expenses... property tax, garbage, water, electric, town/city registration, maintainance/repairs, hoa, personal property tax, debt service, property manangement, mowing, etc. 

In some situations like these, you are prohibited from renting the property because they want to maintain the feel of an owner occupied building.