The excellent information that @Joel Owens shared is starting to carry great weight.

However we are looking to diversify the portfolio and also to lessen my management responsibility. 

It was recommended that it's in your chosen field and while there is some weight put on that it's most important that your new job is both full time and permanent. 

Huge group, a lot of weight behind them, and they're getting into the wholesale game.

A good jack of all trades will be worth his weight in gold as most specialty subs aren't interested in coming all the way out to replace a door knob and/or their hourly rate makes maintenance calls prohibitive.

Best economy" is calculated as an equal weighting of both economic breadth and economic strength.

I guess the credit inquiry part of their score is not weighted as heavily as other factors so it doesn't matter?

I'm sure these factors are taken into consideration but not sure how much weight this will hold.

If she’s making a $1,000 payment a month in it, then paying off gets that weight off her finances. 

We are also working on seller financing for part of the cost to lessen the amount needed to hit 20% as we don’t think it makes sense to pay PMI here. basically thinking ill make monthly payments to them over the next 2 years.