Totally a viable option but keep in mind the documentation of the process and making sure that YOUR material participation does not exceed anyone else in the home - for example, your cleaners or maintenance people. 

If you do, you could give them an option for a month to month lease if they use you to purchase their new home.If that is not an option, I would stick to the lease end date of June 30th.

If I do go the property management route - can i get a limited service option (say in which I find the tenant, collect rent, handle most maitnenance issues) and they primarily are liasoning with my vendors during US business hours and handle any urgent maintenance issues?

If you find one that does, expect to pay at least 15-20% management fees for handling all the extra headaches.

I see value in both, but I'm unsure which is the better option.

Contractor buying material more than required and using extra material in other projects?

Would this be a viable option?

From what I understand you can't pay let's say extra taxes or extra insurance or operating deficits from separate money outside the 401k. 

*This is the new aspect for me, so if you guys have any extra tips like "try calling the utilities rather than doing a search", or "always double check with the zoning & permitting boards if you plan on doing STR for air b&b licenses", or even seeing if there are any extraneous departments that can cause headaches later like city inspector or the fire marshal, or some other thing that would be good to know about.Thanks so much in advance everyone --Side note, it is so refreshing to come to a site where people *want* to learn about title.

There is another option to look at assumable loans here in AZ and see if you can get into a lower interest rate.