If those options are not available to you, I'd make sure I set myself up where I wanted to be for a few years, then ask for a short sale as it will harm your credit.  

Even full time agents are in appointments and meetings and can't respond every second so if your clients and other agents can't tell you have another job no harm, no foul.

That has a bad habit of not being there when you need it...and history has told us that.  

This common scheme encourages the original Seller to sell to the second buyer by virtue of creating a false sense of what the current market will bear.It isn't so much a matter of whether the other potential buyers will be harmed, but the fact that both Bidders have engaged in deceptive practices towards the Seller.

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.

Build up the habit of asking for the business and I guarantee you will get more deals.I created a list of 75 different closes that you can use to ask for the business.

Living extremely frugal will save you more capital and build better habits. 1 year, or even 3 years, goes by like the blink of an eye.

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.

You might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”, since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant: https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processes