@Tony Willenborg, one thing I have found very effective is find the local online sales groups. 

When you sell you have to make it "sale ready", there's vacancy, and you pay realtors and closing costs.

After a quick conversation with the store sales associate, we realize just how simple the installation would have been had we done it ourselves.

to hold 5 to 8 years and exit.. unless you have appreciation that covers your sales cost your going to lose money.. does not matter where it is. 

I am a commercial real estate agent and I only sell and buy vacant land in the area, so I am very familiar with the market in the area.My appraiser used comps from a 10 acre parcel that sold for $150,000 in an area where I sale 1.25 acres for $90,000; 2.5 acres $150,000; and 5 acres for $300,000.

You can easily pour $10,000 into a renovation that will only increase the sale price of a home by $4,000.

You make money when you close a sale and not just when you get  a lead for a buyer or  a seller.

@Rory Compton - It's a short sale, so the list price is really irrelevant, because it is subject to bank approval.  

And then I was thinking of handling it like a short sale.

I gave them the option of closing quick selling as is no inspections guaranteed sale.