You can find affordable areas around here though if you’re willing to go out a couple hours drive from here

I do have a couple collections from over 3 years ago but no judgement, liens or bankruptcies. 

One couple living upstairs (military, MIL), one couple (not military) w/dog living downstairs--they worked that out among themselves after renting house.

One of my take-aways from Vijai's wonderful and educational walk-through a couple of weeks ago was to be wary of foundation issues. 

The company will likely help us sell our home.From my vantage point, I think the reasons to sell are:- Free money from the company to sell our home (~$80k commission)- We’ve been in the home long enough to qualify for the married couple capital gains exemption and will likely take advantage of the full $500kReasons to hold and rent would be:- Keep our 2014 low-ish tax base.

Couple that with the money you spent to get to that point maybe it's less than you expected at the end.Now you could do a 1031, reduce some of those costs and taxes but again that assumes you can find something as the replacement.Or maybe you find something that cash flows and goes up 5% yr or stays flat....

The bank as been listed as the owner for a couple of years now on some while others where listed as the owner within the last six months to a year but not listed for sale. 

Since those utility costs go up if there is a couple in the unit vs. a single person is there a way to charge accordingly? 

The more responsible siblings have even more recently taken over management from the less responsible siblings, as they try to bring things back into order after a rough couple years.They've provided me some initial number that cover their year until Nov 30, 2017.

There is a couple of things missing on some of the answers you will get.