Would you want to get the new month-to-month agreement in writing or is it fine to continue without one?

If you continue to get the rent, fine. 

One of the things I continue to circle back around on is, do I have an immediate need for the cash?

Live frugally, stack cash, enough to invest in a Fourplex in Tacoma/everett and then continue that for a few years.

Continue to study and SAVE!

I'm not entirely sure the product continues to be developed given their asset tracking still says "coming in 2017" but the site continues to operate so I'm going to reach out to the company to see where things are at and whether there's legitimate concern over the product shutting down. 

Then, if our daughter didn't get into a good school in 5 years, we could move to a better school district and hopefully not lose much if any on the sale of the building....or simply keep in and continue renting.So to keep this long post from getting too long, for those of you familiar w/ this type of property in KC, is that realistic?

Would urge you to continue doing what you're doing and max out your tax deferral (IRA) and tax exempt (Roth) account on top of the company match.

I would continue to work with the same contractor next time around, he did a good job and his bid was more competitive than others.

I would like to continue working as a Software Engineer and build a portfolio to pay for my children's college in the future, take nice vacations, and pay my current monthly mortgage.