It serves me no purpose as an investor, OTHER than having access to the confidential remarks on the local MLS. 

My main interest was in an assumption, but I am now interested in a deed of trust.

I've also addressed the lack of response.Like I mentioned, I'm new to the whole rental property thing as this wasn't originally intended for this purpose (I used to live there and moved out of state for awhile).

I'm a father of three beautiful kids and would like to spend more time with them which is my main motivation to invest in real estate. 

The purpose is to better educate and protect their molly coddled tenants and give the criminal tenants more support at eviction hearings.Best advice is make all purchase offers conditional on vacant occupancy, assuming of course you are qualified to screen applicants or have a very good highly trusted PM.

You and your husband used it for its intended purpose and now you find yourself in what is a completely legitimate situation for a military couple with him deploying and you finding work somewhere else.Unless your loan agreement specifically says you can't rent it out before 1 year, there's no reason to wait an extra couple of months once deployment rolls around and you pursue work elsewhere. 

Thank you for allowing me to really look deep and see my purpose

Mainly MLS (REO, Short Sale, Keywords) and driving for dollars attempting to put together my own absentee owner list (takes forever driving for dollars, but good to learn neighborhoods).

If not you should be able to see where the main drain line exits the house so you can at least get a sense of which direction the tank should be.

I find my self getting stressed out using them, mainly because I feel like they are more complicated and much less user friendly than others I have used in the past; Turbo Tax, HR Block etc.