.- Use a 3rd party loan servicing company to collect all mortgage and escrow payments and make all appropriate payments to the bank lender as well as seller finance lender.   

Luckily I will be doing this on a full time basis and the many years of project management experience in Oil and gas Services contracting should be of some help.

@Scott Rubzin What services are you most interested in utilizing with a management company?

Another option would be to renovate the property and lease it to a commercial customer. 

To deal with the changes in height that are in the transitions between rooms, I'm thinking about using various width boards to build custom height floor transition/ thresholds between each room. 

Of course that doesn't cover all the other lenders but anything Fannie/Freddie backed.The national servicing settlement of 2012 included 5 lenders specifically. the program did sunset and it did not compel junior lien holders to be forced to accept senior lien holder offers. 

I've used a local tax service business previously to prepare my taxes and they said they just need the mileage related to rental expenses.

Unfortunately I live out of town and every time I would schedule someone to do maintenance, bug service or any type of inspection she would find some excuse not to be available or wouldn't  be present because she "forgot".  

Voter-approved bonds can increase the 1% base rate, such as bonds providing funding for schools, parks, or other community services.

When the rest of the house is put "in-service" as a rental, you would have more depreciation expense.