I would go talk to the parties living in the house to work with them to try to get into the house to look and if purchased leaving the house in good condition. i.e a couple hundred dollarsto leave peacefully or the ability to live in the house while you foreclose, first month rent at another location etc.

Leave furnace for largest unit.Compare prices and buy accordingly.

It appears that the main way to be compensated is through salary payments which would benefit my family now, but what happens when I die leaving any interest to my Wife and children.

But I really hope you don't let their pets outside and leave it up to chance that they get them back. 

If not, you could just arrange to leave the tank full.

This option might leave you with communication barriers and difficulties and little recourse if things don't turn out well.

She was well dressed and had a nice car, was very articulate and looked like a great candidate for success.She relapsed, ended back in treatment, and gave the keys to my place to a lady leaving treatment who remained nameless.

Make sure you open your lines of credits and credit cards now while employedA smarter thing might be: a leave of absence, converting to part time, finding people to do some of the REI stuff, like showing properties, labor, screening, etc.Lots of people don't like their jobs, until they no longer have it.

Why would you have a partner who doesn't have any skin in the game?

The consideration then is the incremental cost of adding to that mailing.With regard to mailing to distressed situations only, I find that the obvious candidates, pending foreclosures and bankruptcy etc. leave out a large segment of the distressed homeowners who don't even consider that they have options in this market.