I don’t want to be in the roommate-finding business so I let them sublet to the person they find to take over the lease/sublet for co-ops/internships.

@Marc S.Just from your OP, it looks like they are asking you if you want to escrow your taxes (and should also be your property insurance). 

They'll just so "no thanks" until the law is settled and then evaluate new business policy in that context.The good news is that a change in the law would only affect future and pending sales... the bad news is OP is pending.

This is terrible advice and goes specifically against what the OP gave as his "why" on debating paying it off, "...at this stage of life as burning gas in the RV [is] far more appealing than more debt...". lolI think what @Bill Brandt said is a good option, removes the worst of the interest while retaining reserves.

You know, next to the coin op laundry.

  :)The issue with the OP is that the tenant hasn't acknowledged the rent increase AND is still paying the prior rent amount. 

It creates, as the OP stated, hardship for the landlord, but not the arbitrager, "...I knew the hardship a vacancy would have for them...".It's nice to see the OP is working on reducing that hardship!

This weds 3-5 pm at strang hall in OP.

so maybe im dense, I see the calculator page on the STS website, but it just looks like a breakdown that you would do manually in a sheet. but that breakdown doesnt seem to address the questions the OP was looking for. unless you have to schedule a call and engage with them.

We have been starting to see some threads on that, and one where the op really put it all out there.Also, what is your "end game?"