There are clauses in most leases that deal with abandonment, but if all their belongings are there, this is not abandonment.

That could be longer terms or a lower downpayment. 

The lease should state who is responsible for pests -- mine says something about it currently is free from pests, and if it's brought to my attention within the first x days, like 14 days, I'll pay for treatment, but not after that as it could have come in from the tenant belongings or tenant created an environment attracting them. 

Scoop in on all the left over food and drinks.

I list on Zillow through a online web portal I belong to.  

It would be like drinking water out of a fire hydrant. 

All of the 1031 timeframes would be long past.

If you wanna go crazy, watch it on YouTube and drink in some red blooded American leg drops while you're at it. 

Even if values were to go down, it would only be temporary, by the time you sell the house (10 years is US average) prices will be long recovered. 

But I feel that technically, that cash belongs in my home equity and I only tapped it due to market pressures to secure a great deal.I thought about taking the rental property and now refinancing it to place a mortgage on it and use the proceeds to payback my primary home mortgage back to the 100k existing.. but rates shot up...Then the property would appear to be leveraged with the note being on the rental rather than it's current hidden location within my primary home mortgage.While I bought it in 'cash', the cashflow will go to service the mortgage on my house which used to be ~2k/mo with 100k left but now is something around 4.5k/mo with 700k left to pay off...So technically, the rental has this 600k @4.6% to payback...